“What you focus on grows!”

“Slight persistent effort can move you successfully forward in anything you do.”

“Failed efforts are there for you to examine and learn from.”

“Freedom...is the act of releasing ourselves from the bondage of that which keeps us from living the life we were meant to live.”

“Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.”

“Focus on what you can do, then do it with all your heart.”

“If the egg splits, its sides falling open just enough for the fuzz-capped head of the child to emerge, then the story might be allowed to end. When the egg is found crushed, wet pieces tucked quickly into the open mouth of the tree, then we have little choice but to begin again. Often, after peeking through loose fingers held as wings over our eyes, we look for fragments, hoping they remain piled, split and sharded, not growing, as magnets, back together.”