Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.