No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.

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.

Never let those who are very accustomed to playing small, talk you out of the habit of dreaming big.

Everything in its own time. If your time is not right now, your right now may be soon.

There's no room in perfection for insecurity.

I sometimes say to people, "I am a window frame - no more. The window frame is not that important. What is important is the light that comes through the window.

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

Health and healing are about more than the eradication of disease. Health is related to wholeness and holy-knowing who we are and how we are connected with the world around us.

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.