I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear.

I spend my nights thinking the worstAnd telling myself that everything's going to work outI keep kicking myself in the mouthOpening up every cut that should be a scar by now

Because of His love, God always provides us with the perfect sketch of our destiny and true purpose for us to apply the finishing lines.

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.