“Don't settle for a spark... light a fire instead.”

“Live as if you'll die tomorrow,Dream as if you'll live forever.”

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

“'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they haven't suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts." ..."I think we killed Ronnie's spirit... Instead of coming alongside her and supporting her through this, I failed her...”

“If you can't be free, be a mystery.”

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”

“Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.”