Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.