“I don’t believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you’ve been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you’ve known it always.”

“In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.”

“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.’”

“Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.”

“True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.”

“The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.”

“The only joy in the world is to begin.”

“Put up with it and you will get more of it.”

“The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.”

“Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”