"You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind."

“Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why they kill you.”

Source : Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

“The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.”

“If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.”

“I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.”

“If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.”

“I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous.”

“Japanese music was so crazy! The J-pop and everything. I never scooped up an album or anything.”

Source : "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”