I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die I know I lived.

They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners…I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children

An educator...a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.

I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.

Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.

Most often it is in heartache that we love more boldly.

People say they walk on the shoulders of giants. True, but have you ever walked like one?

Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real.

Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful.  I don't care what it is. Create it.

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly. xo

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!

To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.

I love surfing, but ---" his gaze wandered over the thin sheet covering her body before he met her eyes again " --- no wave could ever compete with you.

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is

It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.