Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.