The first step is you have to say that you can.

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Life is lived on the edge.

If you’re absent during my struggle don’t expect to be present during my success.

Life isn’t how many breaths you take, but it’s the moments that take your breath away.

If you don’t fight for what you want, don’t cry for what you lost.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.