My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.
1. "What do you really want to get out of life?" 2. "What can you offer the world that no one else can?
You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.
Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it's kind of a big deal.
Always revisit your decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change.
The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.
We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you’re not doing something about it, you’re doing something about it.
Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.
People ask me all the time what it's like to work with my mother. I feel completely blessed because, first of all, this has given us an opportunity to enrich our relationship in ways we never could have imagined. Our time together is purely creative. It's unfettered by politics or the news of the day or aches and pains or family dramas or anything else. This time together is sort of golden and protected as being just creative time, which is heavenly.
We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.
I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.