Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.

It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.

When I learn something, when I know something, when I find something. I always want to share it. Because life is better when you share it.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.