"It is a subtle truth that true knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other."

"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure."

"To love truly means recognizing that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

"The fear of death comes from limited awareness."