It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be.

Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.

These Moments Cascade Upon One Another”Here at shepherd’s dusk, in a valley without echo, I listen for you. With a frayed longing, I hear your shadow voice whispering within me from far away. I grasp...

It’s a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I’ve ever heard.

Enjoy what you are learning and doing. This is one of the hardest concepts in the entire world to understand. Harder yet to put into practice.

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 . . .

As I see it, you GET married – but you MAKE a marriage.

Dream young. Don’t settle for old – for to be old is to be superstitious and without curiosity and always questioning your faith. And be ferocious in your dreaming – run like a sun’s explosion,...

Hate is a very strong, pure emotion to be wasted on people you don’t care about.

The things you don’t know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery.

Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep.

Respect both what you need to know and what you don’t need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe.” — The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz”Things I didn’t know.

I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

Starting the day – Another chance to be new again.How many of us still wish for that?To be your own sunrise.To awaken like a prayer – both solemn and joyful at still being alive.

I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And...

Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.

If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should...

Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.

You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are.

I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.

Kids. They’re not tin cans or sheetrock. They’re laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.

Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss – taunting, deep, and luscious.

There’s so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have...

Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end – it is the journey.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life’s time to both.

Money – it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness.

Starting the DayThe Legacy Letters By Carew PapritzSometimes 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...

Sometimes I travel just to be overwhelmed – for it’s good every now and then to be overwhelmed.

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...

The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What’s the point?

Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man’s work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch...

All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE.

Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time.

Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water’s edge, diving into summer’s heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any...

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.

I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.

So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?

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...

Sunrise – a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.

Start with a brand new good-morning. To your husband or your wife. To your kids. To those you work with – and don’t work with. What’s the harm? How difficult is it? And it isn’t,...

Be generous with your life – love deeply, honestly, and without reservation.

Just because you’re breathing, doesn’t mean you’re alive.

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....

I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.

Be the same person- with or without money.

HungerYou are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable.

When do you become a man? Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy...

Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility – but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings.