If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.

It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.

Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.

When you wake up in the morning looking for the light, the light will come.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.