If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?""That depends.""On what?""On how I want to feel.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.

Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?

My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.