You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.

When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.