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.

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.

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.

Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process.

Getting married is an incredible act of hopefulness.

Evidence exhausts the truth.

I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.

Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds.

Knowledge is of more value than gold

It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.