All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.

When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

Embracing our dark side gives us a new found freedom to be with the darkness in others. For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you.

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.

Notice what happens when you choose to embrace rather than reject each feeling that arises within you today.

Right now, there is a stronger, more vibrant, more inspired version of you that is wanting and waiting to emerge.

Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning.

Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

Madame Bovary is myself.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.