Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas.

Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Just set one day’s work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out.

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.