I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?

Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

I used to shoot up and throw up, now I suit up and show up.

My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!

If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat.

God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.