I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.

I'm willing to grind, endure & suffer to wake that beast within me, to grow, accomplish & win.

When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.

I'd say there's 100 percent of the guys who think they're in the 25 percent.

The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold