How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.

All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that.

What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.