All around us, birds woke up the sky.

Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake.

Anyone who's ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt.

But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them.

I slept so long and hard that when my mother woke me the next morning I was a stranger to myself.

And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret.

Our thoughts affect our agreement with reality, our story we tell ourselves. IF you want to change your story, start with your thoughts.

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.

We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken.

A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.

Please don't mistake who I am for who the character is.

Yet [Georgia O'Keeffe ] always stayed true to her vision, and was at times uncompromising in following the path she saw for herself.

I was very aware of being younger than everybody on set.

We all have different competencies. Some of us are intellectually gifted, some of us athletically gifted, some of us are great listeners. Everyone has a different level of what they can do.