When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Read Summary
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Read Summary
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. Read Summary
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Read Summary
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. Read Summary
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. Read Summary
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Read Summary
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Read Summary
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good. Read Summary
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. Read Summary
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good. Read Summary
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Read Summary
Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life. Read Summary
All great achievements require time. Read Summary
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. Read Summary
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. Read Summary
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name. Read Summary
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Read Summary
The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are. Read Summary
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. Read Summary