“Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.”

“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.”

“The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified and pick yourself. It doesn’t mean you have to be an entrepreneur or a freelancer, but it does mean you stand up and say, ‘I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.”

“I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.”

“Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.”

“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”