It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

Everyone has problems. It's how you choose to deal with them. Some people choose to be whiners some choose to be winners. Some choose to be victims some choose to be victors.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.