“Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.”

“Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.”

“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”

“See, the ‘small stuff’ is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is distorted. They ignore ‘small stuff,’ claiming to have an eye on the bigger picture, never understanding that the bigger picture is composed of nothing more than-are you ready?- ‘small stuff’.”

“If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened.”

“One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.”