How many paths had I avoided in life? How many times had I been content to stop at "close enough"--too afraid to push ahead? Too afraid to let go?Too afraid to give up . . . control.

Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees.

Be generous when you are giving your love.

Do you want to know my mindset? I play whether I win or lose if I believe in the play. All in! You've to kill me. I won't tap out :-) lol

Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside.

Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Patience is that the heart does not feel anger towards that which is destined and that the mouth does not complain.

I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend.

Sometimes one barely understand oneself.

I'd like to get to a state where people think that if you've Googled something, you've researched it, and otherwise haven't, and that's it.