If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.

I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will. My mother was in a wheelchair since I was very young, so she was in pain and we used humor.

I believe in unity, as opposed to division.

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.