Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.

You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.