“Welcome each day like a good meal. The essence of a life well digested comes from knowing your strengths, overdosing on the senses and remaining active and playful.Keep you hands on the plow, push don't ever stop pushing always be willing to give a little more energy-the tension may always be there. Then your life will never go limp”

“Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.”

“You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives.”

“Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.”

“Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.”

“Life is like walking a tightrope:A balance between turning inward Often enough to find your happy coreAnd focusing outward Often enough to care a little more. Leaning too much inward May make you aloof and narcissisticLeaning too much outwardMay make you bitter and pessimistic.Keeping balance fuels life with hope.”

“Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.”