Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

I love my body. And if I didn't, I'd get on the Stair Master

Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.

She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.

I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are free.

Yesterday's partial obedience creates staggering consequences in today's experiences.

If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.

I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost 3 days already.