Once you understand love, you don’t need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don’t need a reward for breathing.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

I have a goal to do my own animated film, something all my own.

Something changed between the two men, namely [Donald ] Trump started slinging mud on Twitter about [Ted] Cruz's wife, Heidi, including a mean comparing her looks unfavourably to his own.

My father started me singing in church.

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

I just don't like travelling very much.

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me.

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.