There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

Be fearless enough to let love transform you.

Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.

Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.

I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend groups and less a sense of self.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

I've seen things that should get a lot of attention get no attention. I've seen things that were not supposed to be a big deal become the biggest thing in the world.