I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

You are loved, and your purpose is to love.