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People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.

The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

In life go straight and turn right.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

I think, for me, my goal is to continue to be teachable. I can't see around corners, but I want to be able to walk enough in my life where I go around more corners than I ever thought I could go around.

As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.