“Discover who you truly are and fully give every aspect of your uniqueness to the world. This is your path to an extraordinary life.”

“Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.”

“Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.”

“You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.”

“Little world, full of scars and gashes, ripened with another's pain,Your flowers feed on carrion--so do your birds;Men feed on each other because you taught them life was cheap,Flowing from your endless womb without pain or understanding.No midwife caresses your flesh or bathes clean your progeny,Life spurts from you, little world,and you regard it with disdain.Only bruised men sense your cruelty, men whose life has lost its meaning.”

“My world was ordered, calm, and controlled, then you came into my life with your smart mouth, your innocence, your beauty, and your quiet temerity ...and everything before you was just dull, empty, mediocre ...it was nothing.”

“Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.”