“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient...”

“Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.”

“We scatter small parts of ourselves as we journey through life, pieces that are stored by others and about which we may have no memory.”

“Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.”

“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music, you can reach anybody. Between the two, there is you, unstoppable.”

“People don't understand us. They don't understand me. They think it's so black and white, that he makes me miserable and that I should be with someone else and that I deserve something else. But it's not black and white at all. It's gray. It's a never ending world of gray.”

“There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.”