Yesterday I smiled, tomorrow never came and today is what I'm living.

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!

They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong

Very rarely do the best things in life fall into our laps

Progress always involves risk

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.