“SUCCESS TONIC• 1 tsp confidence• 1 tsp courage• 2 tsp patience• 4 tsp prayer• 4 tsp perseverance• 4 tsp joy• 6 tsp enthusiasmTake one teaspoonful of this tonic three times daily.”

“Nothing was going to compromise my freedom to walk the streets whenever, wherever and with whomever I wanted. I saw fame as being akin to living in a high-security prison and I didn’t want to go there. How can you win just enough and then leave the table? Go to a Gamblers Anonymous meeting and you’ll see it’s easier said than done. I’d have to be very careful to not let things get out of control. I resolutely avoided looking at charts, bank balances, reviews, radio or television appearances, and carried on like nothing out of the ordinary had happened.”

“Just a grain can bring a bird down from the skies.”

“It was Suzy Kassem who first said, Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

“One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.”

“The only limitations you have are those limitations you accept.”

“Let your light shine so bright that your brilliance can only be ignored by fools.”

“The only person worth competing with is yourself. Work to be a better version of you, not a better version of someone else.”

“All good things start inside your mind. Your thoughts, feelings, and attitudes must be good in order for you to feel good. Change the way you think and you’ll change the way you live.”

“The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable … If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.”

“Will you live your very last day,The same way as you livedYour first?Will you cry, smile, laugh, and play -The same way as you did followingBirth?Will you still look at the worldFull of wonder, love, curiosity, and excitement?Or will you be dark, bitter and cold,Without a single dropOf enlightenment?Do you live your current days -Feeling confused,Depressed,And AFRAID?Or do you share your lightIn the companyAnd service of others,To synergizeLike we wereMade?Will you live TODAYWith an unquenchable thirst forLife?Or,Will you wait until your very last day -Wishing you had justONE MORE DAY,To go out and spendYour timeRIGHT?”

“Your attitude is the distinguishing factor to your future.”

“If I am gonna do all the talking, likely I am amongst dead people.”

“What if we lean in to life even with the messes and the mysteries to find the magic in it all?”

“In spite of it all I didn’t want to die.”