Pause and remember - Nothing lasts forever. Better days are coming, but they will come faster with faith.

Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!

Pause and remember - When you fight reality, you will lose every time. Once you accept the situation for what it truly is, not what you want it to be, you are then free to move forward.

Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen.

Pause and remember - Every morning is a new page in the story of your life. You are creating your life at every moment. Think wisely about the day you want to create for yourself.

Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.

Pause and remember - Slow and steady will get you where you want to go. If you put too much pressure on yourself for results too quickly, you will quickly give up.

Pause and remember - Everyone gets discouraged and feels lost at times. Don't worry - life will get better. A new way is being made for you. Keep moving forward even if it's just baby steps.

Pause and remember - At any moment you have the power to say 'this is enough' and radically change the course of your destiny. Have the faith and courage to follow your hearts calling.

Pause and remember - You will have a lot more time and energy to spend on yourself when you stop worrying and wasting time on how others need to change.

Pause and remember-- Every moment is a choice. Every thought, word and deed is creating your future. Choose wisely and positively!

Since there is no way to Live after you die, why not Live Now! -RVM

As it was universal truth no one can control the power of nature, it was useless to mourn when rain poured heavily when it was least needed.

When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.

The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.