Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.

Being willing makes you able.

If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.

Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.

You don't have to earn or deserve love. You are love. Loving is never about how others treat you. It is always about how you are treating yourself.

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.

Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.

Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.

The first Garbage record sounds bizarre, it's not a pristine sounding album. We ran everything through stomp boxes and through samplers and that definitely gave it a vibe.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.