People who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.

The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.