Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

Everybody is worth everything.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.