If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck.

Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

There is a self-destructive program running in the consciousness of humanity, and we must write a new program.

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.

Your boyfriend smells bad, says Sarah as she sniffs the armpit of the giant sweatshirt.All boys smell bad I say and she nods her head like we have just figured out something very important.

I'm always under surveillance from both the NSA, the Russian KGB, and the Bulgarian Army, so I'm the most invisible.

But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was.

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

Honestly, I have come to believe that everything is in the order it's in for a reason. I am happy with who I am today.

All types of racing costs a lot of money no matter what you're doing.

The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.