If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

It is very difficult to stop feeling.

There's something about a holiday that isn't all about how much money you spend.

No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.

Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.

Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was proof that it worked.

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.