“Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it’s one of the best feelings there is to feel.”

Launch and learn. Everything is progress.

I only want to hit my targets if the aiming and the hitting both feel good.

Decide to get over it. You know, just let it go. It can be that simple.

I want to surrender to the feelings and shapes of words and not stop until I am clearly heard by myself and my God.

Pull over to the side of your journey and look how far you’ve come.

But what if we took it one step further and made an effort to actually transform our pain into something beautiful? What if we went full out and made an effort to transform other people’s pain into something beautiful?

People magazine with a bag of sour cream and onion chips always makes be feel a bit trashy. But good trashy.

It’s a great privilege to dream.

Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.

The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.

Apologizing makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Expressing gratitude makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Maybe there’s something to this vulnerability/strength connection, eh?

If your goals aren’t synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won’t matter much.

Love the necessary hard work.

If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you’re missing out on the power of real integrity.

Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage.

What if desire wasn’t an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

It is not the man that can preach the best that is the most successful, but the man who knows how to get his people together to pray.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.

Don’t bother finding a soulmate. Your aunt tells you, your fluffy scrambled eggs are the best she’s had and dammit, you can enjoy those all by yourself. No need to share the wealth.

The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.