These things are sent to try us, but why me?

Grasp it all, don't be afraid, enjoy the bits you can and tell your family you love them while you have the chance.

There is nothing like the camaraderie that one has with fellow drinkers. It is a club you never leave once you join. Well, willingly or easily.

I face my demons and embrace my fate.

The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.

When our desire for truth outweighs our fear of change, we make choices that serve an open heart rather than a closed mind.

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called 'Diagnosis: Unknown.'

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.

Some coaches think they know everything, but they really don't. They tell you what they think is best, but it's really what's best for them.

I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.