I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.

It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all.

I said, but I have to go, there are so many places calling my name.

You will meet many opponents in your time that will come face to face with your flaws, trust the chaos ~ pain & confusion is the pathway to break open and become free.

Know your worth and love yourself in such a way that anyone who is no good for you, wont be able to reach you.

You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life focusing on all that falls apart.

Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.

I am a wild woman. it would take a warrior to tame my spirit.

You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl.

Sometimes all it takes is a little watering everyday and a sunny day to follow, that's how weeds become flowers and new dawns rise - why would it be any less then for a human life?

what once cause catastrophe in my life has now become the catalyst for my direction.

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

Your dreams become your destiny when your plans become your actions!

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

A truly intelligent person is the dumbest person on the team he is leading.

...if I need to apologize for misrepresenting God's love I'd rather apologize for overstating His love than for understating it.

If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.