In this truth, in this faith, we trust.
For while we have our eyes on the future,
History has its eyes on us.

Start with one step, just one…and then take the next one and keep going that way.

Don’t get tired of challenges. Make them tired of you.

Change is made of choices, & choices are made of character.

You are stronger than you think. You have gotten through every bad day in your life, and you are undefeated.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

We might not be fully sure of all that we are. & yet we have endured all that we were.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

What doesn’t kill you simply makes you stranger!

The great responsibility I feel is to get people to put that power and that hope in themselves.

Understimate me. That will be fun.

You must tell yourself, ‘no matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.’

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.

Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.

Don’t underestimate me! I don’t quit and I don’t run.

I was writing since I can remember – I just didn’t know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.