"I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body."

"My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?"

"I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph."

"You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a radiant truth that the moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The greatest journey starts when character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that character is forged in the fires of discipline."