Possibilities are completely different. When you ask 'what is possible?' you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a life beyond the mediocre, ask not 'what are my options?' but 'What is possible?'

Go for vitality, not comfort.

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

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

If you make the wrong decision, you make the wrong decision. That's all there is to it. There are few guarantees in life. One of them is that you will make lots of mistakes The worst thing you can do is wimp out and spend your life in suspended animation refusing to make a choice because it may not be a perfect one.

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

A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life -- the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.

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.

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the world around them. Only human beings have unfulfilled lives.