I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

We have today and hopefully tomorrow to be the best version of ourselves.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

The only way to learn who you are is to leave home.

...What is easier for us isn't necessarily what is better for us.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline and it taught me to control my temperament.

I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.

I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

Growth requires facing where you're at so you can go to the NEXT LEVEL

A good heart is a beautiful home where you can always find peace!

Always do what you like, do what you want, and try your best to be happy.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.