Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.

You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.