“The nearer a man comes to a calm mind the closer he is to strength.”

“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

“No matter how young you may look or feel, time refuses to rest. It forges on. I’m now right around the age my parents were when I first considered them old. I’m not sure when the world will consider me old — maybe it already does — but I do…

“It’s kind of poetic to know that I’m not going to be here forever. No one is. I walk through graveyards, and I read obits. I’m not morbid about it. I just acknowledge life passing and all of us being here for a little while, and it’s kind of beautiful…

“Happiness is not by chance but by choice.”