“The voice sang on, I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine. I played it again. I was not fine.”

“Each guy stamped the passport of my heart. Youre worthy. Stamp. Youre enough. You have not failed completely. Stamp, stamp.”

“I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be Gods way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.”

“And so I just kept writing to myself.”

“We kissed each other until we were too tired to keep going. I could still feel him holding back. It was my penance for what I had done to him. All I could do was hope the walls would fall and that ...”

“Unfortunately, he still hadnt asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.”

“I'm just scared I won't run as fast as I did my freshman year,' I admitted, choking back tears.Coach Woj looked at me for a moment, his eye gentle.'You don't have to.”

“Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.”

“Success is the result of actions. Stop wishing and start doing.”

“My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, o...”