We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

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.

By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God.That condition that allowed the "dumb" to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.