Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don't care. Old is when you don't want to dance anymore. Old is when you don't want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them.

I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

There’s so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have learned. And am still learning.

Starting the day - Another chance to be new again.How many of us still wish for that?To be your own sunrise.To awaken like a prayer - both solemn and joyful at still being alive.

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.

Sometimes the best way is to get out of your own way.

But more importantly in my book of life, it's what you can't buy with money that is often more important than what you can buy.