“A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.”

“When you have something to say, to express, any form of submission becomes unbearable in the long run... You have to have the courage of your vocation and the courage to live by that vocation.”

“Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation.Charles: I don't know what that means.Cordelia: It means you can be a nun. If you haven't a vocation it's no good however much you want to be; and if you have a vocation, you can't get away from it, however much you hate it.”

“Don’t wait for other people to tell you whether you can do something. You can do something whenever you want.”

“If you change the way you crunch into something, it is like trying something new.”

“Have you ever really wanted to be able to do something, but you came across a roadblock of some kind?You have a difficult choice. I made that choice once and it changed my whole life, by giving me experiences I never would have had if I took the easy street and had not tried.”