You plan every step of your life, but sometimes you have to let life happen. Change is always unsettling, sometimes scary, but you have to let go. Take a risk. Risk can be fun.

The dream was on hold. It wasn't dead.

Failure is a part of life. Success teaches you nothing, but failure teaches you resilience. It teaches you to pick yourself up and try again.

They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

The NHL's opinion of itself is so high.... Let them get drunk on their greatness. We'll see how many Euros look our way.

I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

I think you're much more approachable when you're on a small screen.

My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot.

I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.