Certainly, it’s wise to ask for counsel in whatever you endeavor to do. There is safety in that. But when the asking comes from a place of dependence, it is unhealthy.

They say that knowledge is power. I believe that is only partially true. Knowledge is power only if your Wise Self interprets how it relates to you.

We know how to work hard. We know how to go for the goal. We know how to achieve, achieve, achieve but we don’t know how to enjoy the journey.

If we fast forward through the journey, like Adam Sandler in the movie, Click, we’ll look up one day and see that we missed our lives.

If there's going to be pain anyway, I'd rather it be the pain of growth rather than the pain of staying stuck.

I believe that purpose is not only a destination but it is the energy that pushes us toward its fulfillment.

Honoring your feelings awakens your soul. Feelings keep you awake. And it is from that awake place, that sound, that you build your life.

Dancing is about enjoying life. One of the hardest things for us to do is to dance.

Your humility is what secures your future and there is nothing like accountability partners who keep you real.

Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women.

I want to speak to the dream in your heart. That dream that has taken a backseat as you have strived to live up to something different.

She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.

That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...

Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

Learning is the art of ignoring.

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.

If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.