You're surroundings can either be a reflection of you or you can end up being a reflection of your surroundings. Ultimately, one will occur noticeably or unnoticeably.

What are you working towards everyday besides death?

Don't let anyone infiltrate your happiness. Protect it as if it's all you have, because it literally is.

Peace is a flame that can only be ignited from within. Harness positive thoughts and illuminate once again.

Nurture your dreams to fruition, refuse to let the rot in reality.

Hope will get you through the day and love shall carry you through the night. A couple of life's pillars.

Whatever you are pursuing don't stop, or you will forever be wondering how it would've turned out. Even if no one else believes, never give up on yourself.

Don't ever get discouraged, your effort may not be acknowledged but trust me it's noticed.

Where your attention lies is where your life thrives. Shift your focus if you're unsatisfied.

Belief is blind but with patience it too shall become apparent in due time.

Don't open up doors you won't have the strength later to close, be mindful of the acts you enable.

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too.

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

Those faithful Mormon pioneers ... were willing to put everything on the altar to sacrifice for and defend their God and their faith.