Getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Happiness is not by change, but by choice.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.