When your commitment is to be loving regardless of the circumstances, there is no room for harsh words. You assert yourself not from a desire to control but from a desire to stand for who you are.

Being willing makes you able.

Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.

If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.

Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.

You don't have to earn or deserve love. You are love. Loving is never about how others treat you. It is always about how you are treating yourself.

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.

Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.

Speak out off turn and you will surely be put back in line.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

One is that I am a regular, everyday person, you know what I mean. I feel that wherever I am, I really am.

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

What we say we believe makes very little difference until we act on our belief

If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact, use weapons of mass destruction.

And hey, if I keep loving you, maybe you'll eventually crack and love me too.