Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence.

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

The rest of America, with some small exceptions, has been bulldozed and rebuilt and then bulldozed and rebuilt again. Our places have become interchangeable. Here in New Orleans, everything from the architecture to the way in which people eat, the way in which they talk, the way in which they do business, the way in which they dance, the manner in which everything is set to a parade beat, they're all from here. There's no place like it.

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.