“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“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.”

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!”

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”