“Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?”

There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Look at things and listen and feel.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Write drunk; edit sober.

Every day above earth is a good day.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

I think I just laugh nonstop. I think my laughter naturally melts in when I want to recharge.

You can not stop you from being who you are.

Stop and consider! life is but a day

I’m done growing. I only grow when I put my high heels on now.

Stop giving anger power in your life.

If I’m nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it’s playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

A small cold and cough can actually stop you from going where you are.

I learned to love my natural self more when I stopped wearing makeup everyday and started embracing the scars I spent years hiding.