“You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”

“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.”

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”

“I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.”

“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”