Cullen Hightower

The American way is the way most law-abiding, tax-paying Americans live-in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

Don’t worry about things you cannot alter.

One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.

I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim…

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

Me: Unbothered, moisturized, in my lane, well-hydrated, flourishing.

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Would you believe me if I said you were three shades short of all my favorite hues and that I’ve been trying for years to pick words from my garden throat in attempts to explain to you all the things I can’t explain. Or what if I said I have nothing to say other than I love you in the simplest of ways.

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!