While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.

I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave.

I wasn't the tallest kid when I was little.

We all have a road to walk. The foolish walk blindly. The intelligent navigate it. The good repair it as they go. CHARLES JAMES'S DIARY

Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

How we respond to what happens to us - especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over - is a creative act.

Some things you do for you. You do them because it gives you great satisfaction and it puts a smile on your face and that's it. And that's fine. It's not just fine, it's necessary. It makes you a better person, it fills your soul, it opens you up to life in its fullness. So don't apologize for it, enjoy it.

Failure, we see again and again, isn't final, judgment has a point, and consequences are for correction.

Until you stop wishing things were different, accept the way they are, and take up the sole responsibility of doing something about it, nothing will change.

Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.