To be able to put oneself in another’s position, to be able to see and to feel as another person does, this is the rare gift of an earnest spiritual seeker.

Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.

What is right can never be impossible.

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner.

Time spent in meditation is as precious as gold.

Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment.

forgiveness happens when you know that the other is not responsible.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

Be fearless enough to let love transform you.

The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.

Age is a number ... LIFE is all ATT-i-tude!

I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.

I don't have to tell you what I'm going to do in North Korea. And I don't have to tell you what I'm going to do with Iran. You know why? Because they shouldn't know.

Faith is never a matter of can or cannot, but rather, will or will not

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.