Being a first-rounder is a dream. You want to be mentioned as a first-rounder, the best of the best.
The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.
Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That's table sugar. You are made of the same stuff as table sugar. Just a couple of tiny differences here and there and look what happened to the sugar: it can stand upright and send tweets.
And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.
The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i. e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things
Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.
Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U. S. but in a lot of countries
But he knows that no man is an island.