“Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.”

“But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.”

“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, or making friends. It's about doing what you love the best you know how. It's about making a heart pound in fear, shrink from rage, weep with understanding, or soar with excitement. It's about making worlds and living in them deeply enough someone else can join you there. It's about life changed to words, words changed to life, over and over and over again. It's about giving.”

“I realize it's not the best timing-it's only been a month, but life isn't about waiting for perfect timing. If you're not careful, life happens while your stuck in a holding pattern”

“A story isn't like a smoothly running engine, but is rather like a photograph. Photos can never be a perfect representation of what an eye looking at the same subject will see, partially due to the limitations of lenses and emulsions, but largely due to the conscious choice of the photographer.”

“Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do thebest they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doingsomething. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, everget there.”