You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.