The true measure of success in farming is not just the yield, but the health of the soil and the community it supports.

The biggest weapon on the court is your mind.

I've learned that growth comes from pain and struggle.

Literature is a fire that burns within us, a fire that consumes and purifies, a fire that illuminates and warms.

I’ve had to learn to fight all my life—got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile, things will work out.

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the hardest to explain.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

The key to the realization of desire is the feeling of its reality.

"The blank page is both the writer’s greatest fear and greatest hope."