“Sometimes it's hard to wait for good things to happen. - Tia Isa”

“When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her...”

“Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.”

“You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way.”

“When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.”

“If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.”

“We cant change who we are, but we can change the way we do things.”