Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a plate of pasta. You have never seen a plate of pasta. You don't even know it exists. So, to ask for it is totally out of your reality. Hopefully, at some point, either someone shows you a plate of pasta, you read about it, or you hear about it enough so that it becomes real, and it's not just a fantasy anymore, and then you start thinking "Hey, I want that pasta."

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.