Your heart matters most, so be gentler and more patient with yourself, and their hearts matter most, too, so be kinder and more compassionate to others.

It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.

Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it.

I used to never get in a swimsuit. I used to feel so embarrassed about my skin and scars. I'm over that, it wasted too much of my time and I missed out on too much.

A true leader inspires and empowers others to hope more, dream more, do more, and live more.

I give the truths of to-morrow.""I prefer the mistakes of today.

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.

I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.