If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.

Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow.

I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course