When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.