The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
People fail forward to success.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.