Be someone’s security blanket when theirs is in the wash.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

How I wished all my problems were just a piece of cake. Eat it entirely and then it's all gone.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.

We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope.

I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.

There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.