“What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic.”

“Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.”

“You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.”

“You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.”

“It's one thing to say you think someone "hung the moon" but that generally means you are blind and deluded, and then the relationship fails because they say you changed, when really, they never saw you at all...The real test is if someone sees all your flaws or blemishes or individual differences, and they still think you hung the moon.”

“These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports...they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them...that's not facing your fear, that's embracing your stupidity.”

“I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.”