“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within—strength, courage, dignity.”

“Strength and beauty must go together.”

“I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.”

“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

“Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons.”