I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.

I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.

Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears.

Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.