Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.

You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.