To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.

Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.

Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage.

I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

I always second-guess what I am doing.

I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life.

I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.

I'm somebody that has a very big competitive edge and a chip on my shoulder.

My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?

Dave walked closer to me, his dark eyes combing my every move. "Do you always hold your guitar like that?"I dropped my pick. "Do you always shop at Hot Topic?

Follow your dreams even when they're out of reach~

Primary goal for the author: 'Write what you mean to say'Primary goal for the reader: 'Read what the author actually writes

I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential