“When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.”

“Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.”

“To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.”

“I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world”

“No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.”

“Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.”

“How many pages will it take to tell your story?”

“Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.”

“Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.”

“​You can always tell when someone deserves the praise and recognition they receive, because it humbles them rather than inflating their ego.”

“Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.”