If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough . Just do it. Be generous. Offer a gift to the world no one else can offer : yourself.

You are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.

Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.

During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.

The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.