Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

I don't very often read novels.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I am the me I choose to be.