Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant.

Extend your "best before" date by living a youthful life.

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.

No one can take the shot for you.

When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest.

When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win.

Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.

The decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

Death - Is only when the spirit evolves to a higher state that the body becomes old technology.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Rather than staying stuck in stress, unhappiness, or grief, use your experience to find gifts in the pain and grow.

I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.

The more people come out, the less it will be an issue. Of we are ashamed of ourselves, how the hell can we expect the rest of the world not to be ashamed of us?

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.