It takes courage to be the author of your life.

It takes committed, high energy, full-tilt boogie participation to have the kind of life you want.

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

Go for vitality, not comfort.

A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.

The secret of creating anything new in your life consists of creating new commitments and then holding the tiller to your new course until it becomes established as a behavior.

Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.

The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.

The way to find the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.

Just because you have long legs doesn't mean you'll be happy as a Rockette.