Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely.

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Remember, it’s still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you’d have nothing to look forward to. Besides, to be wise and eighteen is as possible as catching lightning...

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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.

Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with.

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...

Remember, it’s still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you’d have nothing to look forward to.

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.

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? 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...

Be the same person- with or without money.

You know there’s got to be a better way of life – somewhere, sometime, somehow – but you’re not exactly sure what better is.

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.

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...

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

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

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

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.

You haven’t seen a thing until you’ve seen this man fight. My sword is sharp. My heart strong. My spirit ferocious – and I am going to live. Let the swords clash. Let the fight...

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

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.

Remember, Little Ones, everything is not important all the time. Only living is important all the time. Not things. Not money. Not more things and more endless money. Spend well the quality of your time....

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?

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 gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

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

Enjoy the RIDE NOW. You’ll be SUCCESSFUL later, however YOU define SUCCESS.

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.

Don’t have kids until you’re ready. And when you do have them, have them all the way. They aren’t like some Cadillac that you can turn back into the dealership after three years.

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...

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.

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

I can feel her next to me. This union. Of warmth. Of caring. Of the indescribable. As if there were no parting and never could be.

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

POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS.

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...

As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.