Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
After a storm comes a calm.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Only the educated are free.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.