“We focus on being extraordinary but forget we can always be extra kind.”

Zoom out a little to see your progress.

Change is the key to unlocking growth.

Some seasons you see growth, other clear space for it.

Can you treat yourself with softness when things are hard?

Seasons change – so can we.

Stay open: to healing, to growth, to trusting. There is too much ahead to close yourself off.

If something could go wrong, it could also go right.

What makes you weird is what you have to offer.

Your worries are valid, let your hope be too.

Not doing more doesn’t make you any less.

While all of this bad is happening, Know that a lot of good is quietly heading for you.

Start Shaky. Start unsure. Start scared. You are writing a brave beginning to this chapter.

When you welcome change, you can start to create it. 

Focus on how it feels instead of how it looks.

Take a break before you do.

The mind wants to take a million steps at once. Our feet remind us that only one is possible.

I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you’re turning the pages.

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

I have written six symphonies, they are smaller-scale works. I seem to emit my themes, work them out, combine and intertwine them, and then come to a close. I usually feel that there are no superfluous extras, but probably most composers feel that way about their works.

I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching,

One more thing. I sold the mustang. Too conspicuous. Don’t get too excited, but i bought you a little something with the extra cash. I heard you’ve had your eye on a volkswagen. The owner is dropping it by tomorrow. I paid for a full tank of gas, so make sure she delivers.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

When I was on the Ryder Cup team and I surrounded myself with the other 11 guys and our captains, being in that locker room, it gave me an extra sense of confidence.