Why are you knocking on every other door? Go knock at the door of your own Heart.
~ Rumi

Arizona Gray Squirrel, Madera Canyon, Arizona 2010

Your life. Your terms.

~ Chris Guillebeau

Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park, Mandan, North Dakota 2010

Living well is the best revenge.

~ Attributed to George Herbert

Bullfrog, Davenport, Iowa 2009

If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.

~ Ellen DeGeneres

Acorn Woodpecker, Madera Canyon, Arizona 2009

Who you are is what you settle for, you know?

~ Janis Joplin

Bison Scratching an Itch, National Bison Range, Charlo, Montana 2018

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Mine Workings, near Superior, Arizona 2005

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

~ André Gide

Driftwood Message, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

~ Horace

Spiny-tailed Iguana, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2014

Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe. – If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

~ Latin proverb

Kayaking on Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana 2018

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

~ Mark Twain

Western Screech Owl, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 2008