You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
That's your dream, to play professional baseball. When you get the opportunity like that, getting drafted - especially by Oakland, a California team, pretty close to home - it was tempting. At the time, I just didn't think I was ready or mature enough mentally or physically to start pro ball.
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.
That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.
Don't manage your career. Follow your dream and contribute.
Hold on to your dream; hold on to your dream - because if it can happen for me, it can happen for you.
We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.
When your dream comes true you have to have great fun.
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
You have a responsibility to move your dreams forward, no matter what.
