Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do.

God, how I have wasted my life.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.