Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.

Compassionate people are boundaried people.

Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary.

You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

When we think of success, we often associate those who are successful with the things they do rather than the things they don’t, and focus is found in the latter.

Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!!

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.

So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.

Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all

I was always a player.

She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan.

Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.