Pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one else is likely to.

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

If you find a path with no obstacles, it likely leads nowhere.

Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.

Create your own tomorrows with your thoughts and actions - today.

You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.

The poorest person is not one without a dollar but one without a dream.

There are always more choices than you think.

Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over.

Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal; Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real.

Dream it. Dare it. Do it.

Joy come and go like pleasant breeze. It's the miseries that stick in you like thorns - until you realize that it's all your doing.

When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet

Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.

Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities.

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.

When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers.

When your heart is shattered into a million pieces, all you can do is try to keep holding on. You breathe. You try to fall asleep. You try to not think about him.

When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.