I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

Need from destiny change with time.

You know it’s a real salvation when Baptists use cold water.

I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.

Whatever you do, do it ardently.

Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?