“If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.”

“Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.”

“Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.”

“There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.”

“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.”

“When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.”

“One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how its happened.”

“To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.”

“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”