Turn off your mind, and focus on what you've got to do - task at hand.

Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body.

Hamburger bad fries bad, coca-cola bad….There I said it. Drink your water people.

Do NOT say you “can’t”! You can say, “I don’t want to”. You can say, “I’m not willing to put forth the effort”. But DO NOT say you CAN’T!

Exercise for the joy of feeling good and getting better. Eat right with the intention of fueling your body with the things it needs to perform.

Aging is for people who don't know any better.

Don’t say ‘I can’t,’ say ‘I presently struggle with.’

THE JOY OF DISCIPLINE OR THE PAIN OF REGRET, WHICH WILL IT BE TODAY?

You can get better, or you can get all gooey, and crotchety, old, pathetic, icky, gross. Not me. Not into it.

Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.

Falling and getting back up is what brings you success.

Within its gates I heard the soundOf winds in cypress caverns caughtOf huddling tress that moaned, and soughtTo whisper what their roots had found.(“A Dream of Fear”)

The past could only control your present and future through your mind. So by all means, guard your mind with the gate of positivity.

If there's no chocolate in Heaven, I'm not going.

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

Medieval learning was really advanced.

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.

There is this mysterious energy that wants us to keep growing.

That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.

I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.