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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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

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.

Be the same person- with or without money.

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.

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...

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.

Part of loving kids is laying down fencelines. They need to know immediately when they’ve crossed a line; otherwise the lesson doesn’t get learned.

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.

MUSIC. Tunneling right down into your CORE and SOULTIME. Hep, sloppy, SEXY and cerebral. Chancy and hip-swinging like ELVIS and your first teenage KISS.

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.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

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.