It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given; I have not embraced what I have learned; I lack my own conviction.

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.