You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, "You can't." Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.

When I woke up in the morning and look in the mirror I realise that one of the reasons I don't own a handgun is, I would have shot my thighs off years ago.

When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces

The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.