Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say 'thank you', but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'.

If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.

As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

Happiness is a decision.