The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

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.

You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies - Q

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

I don't think I can get anywhere near to fully describing what love is.

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.

Believe in the power of believing in yourself.

It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down.