“I always entertain great hopes.”

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That’s all any of us have.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

We love the things we love for what they are.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn’t willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.

Dear Lord, forgive me for all of the times I’ve compared myself to others. I know that You have hand-picked all of my qualities. Help me to see these things as beautiful reminders of Your great love in creating me as Your daughter. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

It is said of great Empires, That the best way to preserve them from decay, is to bring them back to the first Principles, and Arts, on which they did begin.”

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.