Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing.

You teach people how to treat you.

Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.

You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again.

I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.