The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

Don't be afraid to live the life you've been given. Some of us don't t have the chance . . . . don't waste yours.

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

Paper has more patience than people.

Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around.

It's always marketeers building their own careers.

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.