The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.

Your point of view sets you up well in advance for how you view the events as they unfold.

Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.

My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet.

The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.

Even from a dark night, songs of beauty can be born.

My courage does not depend on the weather.

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.

A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

At the end of a matter ask, What will I learn from this to make me better?

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.

Tonight, late, when I'm still not done with the day but must comply with sleep, I can whisper, There was done a little good today. Today I changed myself and the world, just a little. And yes, I loved. Most days, that is enough.

Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

I find motivation and inspiration and hope in information.

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.

Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.