“All that can be cherished from this world, all that makes life worth living is that which is mined from its bowels through your own toil, fashioned from its clay by your own craft, fired in the kiln of your heart. Oh, how precious, how delightful a feast, the life that has been forged by its own master!”

“The world is absurd. Ugly absurd. To repair ugly absurdity, you can't just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful absurdity. We call it 'divine madness'.”

“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.”

“Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.”

“Have faith that you are a daughter of Heavenly Father who loves you.Determine which of your divine gifts will allow you to be a champion for Christ.Realize that you have been sent to Earth with a divine mission that is yours to achieve.Let your knowledge come from the good parts of life that surround you.Choose to set high standards and defend them.Become a great woman by doing good. Always be on the Lord's errand.Leave your mark. Be true in every situation--even when no one is watching.Let your strength come from having high moral standards.Look to Him.Stand as His witness.Become a keeper of what matters most.”

“You have this comet trail of your own lived life, sparks from which arrive in the head all the time, whether you want them or not - life has been lived but it is still all going on, in the mind for better and for worse.”

“In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are.”