Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challe….

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on..

There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per….

My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst,….

The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and ma….

This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it..

A view of heaven from a seat in hell..