Tell the truth and not the facts.

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.