The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

You can fall, but you can rise also.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.