Jesse Clerico

“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
― C.Toni Graham

“The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of their importance”
― Frank Herbert, Whipping Star

“They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God