What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

The ultimate comfort zone is within.

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

People make things happen. All the rest is just window dressing

I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.