If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.

The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.

Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.

I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.