Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last.

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!

I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.

History can be rewritten, but at what cost?

Everyone carries a burden. Only the weight differs.

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself.

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.