My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

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Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience. - William Arthur Ward

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Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.

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Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

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Let's just start and see what happens.

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I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.- Leonardo Da Vinci

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The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. ― Keanu Reeves

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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. - OSCAR WILDE

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What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.

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