“Sometimes we make being happy so difficult.And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil made cough syrup.
Because, somehow, along the way, we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals – or just good ideas.And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“My God, what a sensation to be an atom in the scheme of such grandiosity. The allurement, the jazz, and the physics of it all . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Love your kids and just be there for them. You don’t have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that’s too much.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss—taunting, deep, and luscious. The sun. The heat. The thousand echoes of a timelessness before time, when every day seems longer than the next and no day seems likely to ever truly end. Summer.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don't care. Old is when you don't want to dance anymore. Old is when you don't want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Rain with an umbrella while holding hands with your lover is damned sure nice.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“It's through traveling you make the great journey into yourself, and it's the clarity of extremes in traveling that forces you to meet yourself like you've never met yourself before.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“I promise to dream with you both great dreams and small dreams. To ask your counsel in times of uncertainty. To honor your silence when you seek to be alone. To be ever wondrous at your curiosities and revelations. And to be ever rejuvenated by your passions . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Sometimes I travel just to be overwhelmed – for it’s good every now and then to be overwhelmed.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Be generous with your life - love deeply, honestly, and without reservation.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And all of us should wish for that.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“What good is an “I LOVE YOU” If said only when you have to?
What good is it to ride a horse if you cannot gallop?
What good is it to believe in someone if you doubt your own belief?”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Be the same person- with or without money.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“No one OWES you a THING. So don’t EXPECT it. You’re on your OWN.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“What good is an “I love you” if said only when you have to?”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don’t care if you’re Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It’s that SIMPLE.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Enjoy the RIDE NOW. You'll be SUCCESSFUL later, however YOU define SUCCESS.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take. And what is my soul?...It is everything that make a man. It is everything that makes this man.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“So, if the truest currency of life is time, then how do you get more time? Because if more is merrier, than having more time should make us more happier. Right? Therefore, all we have to ask ourselves is can we buy more time? . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift