“I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”

I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

It has been the craziest year filled with so many adventures, amazing friends, accomplishments & memories.

Don’t ever let anyone even family tell you you can never accomplish what you want.

Without a game plan and without a strong sense of faith in what you’re doing, it’s gonna be really hard to accomplish anything.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Success does not mean achievement, but a feeling of accomplishment.

To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.