Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.

Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

Choas will come, calm will follow, and then it will start up all over again. The secret is to savor the ride.

Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.

Over prepare, then go with the flow.