All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take from it – did it make you laugh, cry, or seek and want justice? Then it’s true.

All children have gifts, some open them at different times.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.

Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.

You’d have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!’.

When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.