Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

When I need motivation, I just think I can do everything if I maintain a strong sense of will.

I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.

It's really easy to give in to, 'I want to raise my kids,' 'I want to be the best mom, so I have to give up my dreams.' I don't believe that. I think, if anything, being a living example to your children is beautiful.

Speed bumps, I was thinking, you know, you're driving along, everything's OK, and then there's a speed bump to go, 'Slow down.' Go over it real slowly, and you hit the pedal, and you keep going, and I just thought it was kind of a nice metaphor for life.