I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'

...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.

I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.

The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.