Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.

While we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.

You never really know how or when your life is going to change, and that's for the best.

Survival activates miracles when a person relies on the graces of hope and faith.

Get a backbone, not a wishbone.

I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation. I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me. Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day. So that's my practice.

The amount of suffering you actually can feel, you want to be able to do something about it. You want to be able to attend to it, to change the system that is making this happen. Because you are so aware of how unnecessary it is, and therein lies the deeper pain.