We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Live in the present moment, you can't go back to yesterday, you can't leap into tomorrow, Today is your second, minute, hour! Embrace It!

...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself.

What you perceive as rejection is really someone making choices based on their needs at that time

Once again, I felt as I needed to flee or I’d die. That was how my life was panning out.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

Accountability only works if you want it to.

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!