1) Our personalities are a sum total of our life experiences and the people with whom we surround ourselves.

2) Most of us are more afraid to live than to die.

3) Everyone should experience a death in a public place ( I know this is dark) to witness life leaving this earth is transformational, and forces one to assess the importance of life.

4) Just because I don’t understand you, that does not make you an artist.

5) Stress is not the same to everyone; some individuals apparently have a large bandwidth to tolerate and manage stress

6) We exist throughout our lives as two individuals: the person we are, and the person we are capable of becoming. We should make it our mission to meet the people we encounter on our journey.

7) Sometimes you have to make the wrong choices in life to get you to the right places.

8) Mark Twain once said that two of the most important days in your life are the day that you were born and the day you find out why.

9) If you predict bad things consistently, eventually you will be right.

10) There is no substitute for the truth, no matter how ugly it may be.