Every problem must find it's owner before we can ever offer a solution

An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

It's my job to manage my heart so that I can respond to you in love and cast out fear in our relationship.

Marriage isn't just a choice. It's choosing the same person a million times.

No one else can steward the fire inside of you because only you are in charge of it.

One of the symptoms of being free is you begin to dream.

In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

I sighed. "Would it be too much to ask that Asgard be peaceful? Made up of big, fluffy clouds, serenity, and lots of hot yoga?

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

The public is never wrong.

The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.