Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

REAL trumps PERFECT... because REAL creates TRUST.

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

Young people are so often dissed by the media.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.

If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.