Alice Walker, who observed, The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...
The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.
I'm into mellow dates with really good food.
Living life without a goal is like sailing the sea without a compass.
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
One love, one heart, one destiny.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.