Never surrender your dream to your challenges, struggles and obstacles. No matter how hard you fall, always get back up and keep trying like all the great influential people did.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!

grades really cover up failure to teach.

Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.

I've always been an animal lover my entire life.

I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have great parents that cared about me.

Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard.

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.