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Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.

When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise.

Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...

Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to have, you must first make it real in the realm of your consciousness.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs...

Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms...the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars...

The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.

No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it.

You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn__ spinning pulsars_

I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall_and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.

Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.

Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.