“I’m very much in acceptance of what I look like and I own what I think and feel. And that, to me, is what maturity is. You own what you think and feel. I say what I mean. I mean what I say. I try not to say it mean….

“I used to be young but I got over it.”

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

“You can’t be the kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time—none, zero.” And “If it’s wisdom you are after, you are going to spend a lot of time sitting on your ass and reading.”

“Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left.”