Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

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.

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.

I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?