"But beware of this about callings: they may not lead us where we intended to go or even where we want to go. If we choose to follow, we may have to be willing to let go of the life we already planned and accept whatever is waiting for us. And if the calling is true, though we may not have gone where we intended, we will surely end up where we need to be."

“Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.”

“However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.”

Source : "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 195), 1979.

“If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?”

“I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And Sassenach," he whispered, "Your face is my heart.”

“I hope you brought your wallet, 'cause the rent in Hell gets paid in advance!”

“For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, Wheres your home? I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.”

“I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.”