It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

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