Be wise, because the world needs wisdom. If you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.

It's more than saying sorry. It's meaning it. It's letting the apology change things. But an apology is where it has to begin.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.

And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.

The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.