It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence read more

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.

If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. read more

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is read more

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.