You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

The secret of life is to be intensely interested in everything.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

An unexamined life is not worth living.