There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

You are good enough to make whatever you want to achieve possible. You just need to find your talent and passion, then put a heck a lot of work into it.

Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world.

If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

This isn't CM Punk talking to Triple H, this is Phil Brooks talking to Paul Levesque

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.

When life sucks, throw yourself into art.

The mindset of a champion is that I put myself in a certain situation to win, I don't play to lose, I dont prepare to lose, I hate second place and I definitely don't like silver.