"Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made."

"Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace."

"But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move."

"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."

"You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good."

"Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles."

"Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite picture."

"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side."

"All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million."

"I have loved like a child collecting shells along the shore line, discarding one shell for another of seemingly more outward beauty with no knowledge of the pearls that were hidden within."

"The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain."

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."