Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

You have to CHANGE the way you THINK in order to CHANGE the way you FEEL

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.

When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.

Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living.

It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!

You have to be willing to put yourself in position for good things to happen

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

This is a story about survival.Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life.The things left unsaid...

If you can’t fire your best friend or your brother, don’t hire them.

Information is a difference that makes a difference. Truth is information that doesn't change and self referential noise is a difference that doesn't make a difference.

If your gonna go down, go down swinging!

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion'.

I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

Yes, I'm married, but I'm not a corpse.

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.