“I’ve never had a moment when I thought: “Tom, you’ve made it!”, and I don’t think I want to, because that feels like you’ve reached the end; that you’ve crossed the finish line. But to me there is no end. An achievement is not a finish line; it’s a checkpoint on a far greater journey. It’s a moment to pause, to take a breath and look back and enjoy what you’ve experienced and be grateful for it, but then to turn around and look towards the next checkpoint, the next achievement.”

“You’re not going to get what you want out of life till you figure out what it wants out of you.”

“You require a certain amount of insanity to make your dreams come true!”

“Our passion, even our insult, could be turned into a blessing.”

“You must not allow the hurt of the past to haunt or hinder you from fulfilling and performing your duties as one who has a passion to impact his society and make a change.”

“You can be a person with a strong passion or holy anger and be furious in a way that will make the society safer, godly, with social justice and equity.”

“Whatever your passion, make sure you hold unto a philosophy that is bigger and greater than you.”

“Stay with your passion but have a philosophy that is beyond your strength so that you can have a legacy, even a legacy that will outlast you.”

“Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.”

“If you’re addicted enough to your passion, you’ll surely somehow find time and paths to follow it.”

“Personal growth entails harnessing a person’s illicit and destructive passions.”

“Love isn’t something to be given on whim, or shelved when it isn’t convenient. Love is gift, a promise, and a belief in another person. If you treat it as such, it will fulfill you always”