They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.

I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.

I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

He doesn't comment on any of the music I play: Sonny Rollins followed by AC/DC followed by the Broadway score from My Fair Lady.

The graveyard is every man final resting place.

ALL EXCUSES must be FOUGHT by taking ACTION against the THOUGHT. ~ Author Mammy Oaklee

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.

The point to me is not what Donald Trump is saying because we keep reacting to just things he says in his tweets. What he is doing is important.

The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life.

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.