“Legacy is not what’s left tomorrow when you’re gone. It’s what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you’re here that then happens to live on.”

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be.

Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It’s your heart that will really keep you on tack… and nourished along the way.

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free.

You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.

The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself.

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world – but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present.

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides – only the heart truly binds.

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else.

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers.

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.

Rest and peace should not be left until you’re deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.

Love is the only path to anything worth doing, creating or pursuing.

A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.

It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone’s notable achievements.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.