The more we learn to love and respect ourselves, the more we will become attracted to people who will love and respect us and who we can safely love and respect.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

We exist in the world of books.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Everything you need is within reach, the key is whose going to reach

My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.

I find that men are far more vain than women.