“If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.”

Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

Everybody’s vision is unique, and at different times in their lives their vision changes. It may be smaller and more personal for a while, and then it may grow larger, expanding outward to the world.

What you can’t be with, won’t let you be.

Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

Embracing our dark side gives us a new found freedom to be with the darkness in others. For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you.

We were birthed with one soul to take care of, and we must take care of it.

Loving yourself means making choices that allow you to care for the important person that you are.

To get to this place of a warrior’s courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.

Your soul never asks you to endure anything you can’t handle.

Asking “Am I choosing from my divinity or am I choosing from my humanity? “ opens the door for us to experience realms of reality that we may never have visited before.

Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming

Many of us don’t realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives.

If you ask the Universe to be your partner and guide you on the path to wholeness, it will oblige.

People with hearts filled with love, peace, and compassion live in heaven.

We must risk the journey to a higher ground where there is freedom from the gravitational pull of our stories, the pull that comes from years of trying to prove that the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we’ve made up, are the truth.

Choose the path that feels lighter.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

It’s safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don’t know why you do it.

The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.

I don’t condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You’re the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey – like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.

I don’t pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.