"I'm not a writer who happens to teach. I'm a teacher who happens to write. I teach until my throat hurts, and then I write."

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. Unless you spill coffee on your white shirt, then it's just a bad day."

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. And that's not always a good thing, sometimes you make them fe…"

"I've learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."