I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it to your family, it's your gift of energy to them.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.