When it comes to our money and work lives, most of us have had our challenges, our valleys. Most of us have a couple of files in our head. One, I name "It was my own damn fault." And the other one I name, "I don't know how I will ever forgive those bastards."

Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

Happiness is a decision I must make.

You are a child of God.

If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.