“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.”

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”

“Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.”

“Achievement brings it own anticlimax.”

“All great achievements require time.”