The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.

It takes courage to be the author of your life.

Go for vitality, not comfort.

It takes committed, high energy, full-tilt boogie participation to have the kind of life you want.

Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

Just because you have long legs doesn't mean you'll be happy as a Rockette.

The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.

The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

Steps are what you take when you think you have forever.

How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?

Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

You should not take your intuitions at face value.

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

Why can't there be love that never gets tired?

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

When there are monsters there are miracles.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Motherhood has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has taught me a lot about myself, about the things I'm great at, and the things I need to work on.