I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Sometimes you go through life and the wrong thing happens.

Regret nothing. Everything broken can be remade. And everything remade can once again be broken

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

Hookers have to deliver on their promise... unlike politicians.

One could say, that #‎ Masons were raised right.

There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.