What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

I still dream that it was you. No matter how many times I've looked, in my dreams it's always been you who were meant to be my queen.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

I feel very deeply for Canada, and l believe most Canadians do.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

At the bottom of all our fears is simply the that we can't handle what life hands us.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.