Do we follow the road life’s placed before us? Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path. A path fraught with struggle and sacrifice, Yet one whose outcome places us in destiny’s arms.

Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life?

Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.

Leaders lead themselves first and foremost. Only then can they act as example and inspiration to others.

The leader acknowledges and eradicates the weeds in the garden, but keeps vision on the beauty they are creating and not on the weeds they are destroying

I’m subject to occasional theological nightmares. The one that leaves me in a cold sweat every time is, I arrive at the pearly gates and the first thing I’m asked is where I went to college.

Despair is a cruel companion. It robs you of everything

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.

Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.

During my time in the entourages of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, I never saw either of them attack and punish those who disagree, as Dobson does on a regular basis.

Ian paused and leaned closer to me so that I couldn't seem to see anything around his face, just snow and sapphire and ink.