You may think this is crazy talk but I’ve started to work in earnest on my health by attempting to lose the extra 50 pounds that I’ve been lugging around with me for the past few years. No, that’s not the possibly crazy part.
"If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn." — Thomas Merton
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." — Mark Twain