I'm going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

And most of the time, when you're young and dumb - you know everything! Charles Freeman Lee bebop pianist and trumpeter

Life is not what you wish it to be, rather it’s what you make it.

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.