We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.

We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

The message sent is not always the message received.

It does not matter the evil you have experienced in your life, it is not God’s plan for you to be unhappy

There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

Memories are like everything else. They're a trap.

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.

Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin' I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn