If I focus on what makes me happy that's going to be a ripple effect for everything else in life.

"Wherever you are in your journey, especially in your professional career, everything that you have been through has helped you become who you are and where you are today and is helping you get to where you want to be."

"Wherever you are in your journey, especially in your professional career, everything that you have been through has helped you become who you are and where you are today and is helping you get to where you want to be."

Sometimes you do things based on merits or based on how much money am I gonna make, is this cool, is this gonna be socially acceptable . . . there's a lot of variables, but looking back I was doing this because I was just so happy to be able to walk out of my door and skate everyday.

A lot of people grow up here and get tired of the lack of culture because of the city we're situated in & we're constantly overshadowed by Miami. So it's wonderful to see The Art & Creative Community growing here in my city.

We must believe that we can all have an equal chance to make a difference if we want any real difference to be made.

Don't wait until you have something to be someone.

You can't let your individuality, your uniqueness go to waste, because there is no one like you and so you have to own who you are and know your worth.

Information that is applied is power and power brings confidence.

Confidence is a skill and skills can be taught!

All of you have the capability to make a huge difference, to accomplish what you want to accomplish in life, to make an impact.

I believe that human adaptation is a form of genius.

What made me unique was on the outside—my skin color, texture of my hair, my height even at that time. My dad taught me that being unique is like having a special telescope that allows you to see the world in a unique way. The trick is to use that telescope to see what's special in other people as well.

Genius is really a reflection of our own achievement or our will to want to achieve more.

Isn't the true measure of risk life itself?

Who do we choose to trust, and maybe even more importantly, how do we choose who we're going to trust; is there any more human risk than that?

If this one doesn't start, those many almost can't.

Everything lead into something else. It made me who I am.

Humour is a social way of being regressive.

When we are fearful we complain, when we are confident we act.

The way you perceive your life, is a choice.

Sharing someone's story is a privilege, not a right. Nobody owes you a story.

Classical symphonies, sonatas, great works of music use sheer time to work out in great depth the captivated ideas of their composer.

If you slave for untold hours you get one minute that's clear and that's perfect.

My desire to have economic security and independence probably played a bigger role than I even realized in starting my business.