Life is about showing up, so is writing. That’s why I sit at my desk every day and dance my fingers across the keyboard

Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.

Doing something for the mere joy of it—for one's self or others—is quite possibly one of the best returns on an investment of time that a person can receive.

When we inhabit our own life—stop doing things based on the approval of others—we offload baggage and trade up to joy!

Joy is inexplicable peace that comes from within.

Be the spark—live light!

All of us at some time will have someone to forgive for something they did or failed to do. And all of us at some time will need forgiveness for something we did or failed to do.

Don't allow yourself to be held hostage by the opinion of others.

Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift ourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health—body, mind, and spirit.

Life is an expression of the choices we make.

Just as we expect others to value our boundaries, it's equally important for us to respect the boundaries of others.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

I've always liked women. But I don't want somebody who likes me because I'm famous. I like girls who are intelligent and who are kind of quiet like me.

[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

I prioritize people. This grounds me and reminds me of my place in the world.

I'm no angel, but I'm no Bo-Beep either.

I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'