You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

Embracing our dark side gives us a new found freedom to be with the darkness in others. For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you.

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.

Notice what happens when you choose to embrace rather than reject each feeling that arises within you today.

Right now, there is a stronger, more vibrant, more inspired version of you that is wanting and waiting to emerge.

Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning.

An eagle can catch a fish in the ocean of impossibility because he pursues and focuses on only one fish.

It's time to believe in what you know.

Most people hear me do all these freestyles and never hear me tell a story.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.

One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.