Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. - Amy Tan

I, not anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel if by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere — on water and land.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

If you don’t take a chance, someone else will give you his luck. And if you get bad luck, then you need to take another chance to turn things from bad to good.