If you want to make God laugh, tell him-her your plan

No one can truly say with certainty where he or she will be ten or twenty years from now. You do not know if you will be free or in captivity, if you will be honored or despised, if you will have many friends or few, if you will be liked or rejected. But when you hold lightly these dreams and fears, you can be open to receive every day as a new day and to live your life as a unique expression of God's love for humankind.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?

Perhaps we have to learn that life was not meant to be lived in security but with adventurous courage

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said to live more than that which is now present, which is but a moment of time. Whatsoever is besides either is already past, or uncertain.

In a word, if there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not thou also be governed by it.