People tell you that you cannot, because they do not.

Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.

It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'

When you learn from the past, you're liberated from it.

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

What other people think of me is not my business.

Clearly it's not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

Hope is a leg of a 3-legged stool with Faith and Charity.

With patience everything comes in due season.

One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.