Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

Faith is the flip side of fear.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.

Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice

God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.

See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

In every crisis there is a message.

Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.

Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.

Self-love is the starting point for everything.