“It’s important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you.”

Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

I release all fears and doubts. I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe.

I release all control to the Universe. I am at peace with myself and with life.

You are not making the change because you are a bad person and you are doing it wrong. You make changes because you love yourself and you want to improve the quality of your life.

Love who you are and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life and nothing can touch you.

I think leaving [death] can be as joyous as – probably more joyous than – being born, because being born is very physically uncomfortable for the baby.

I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful.

Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.

I only attract loving people in my world for they are a mirror of what I am.

I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.

I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.

Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.

I rejoice in the success of others, knowing that there is plenty for us all.

Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free.

Some of the things you believe were never true. They were someone else’s fears. Give yourself a chance to examine your thoughts. Change those that are negative. You are deserving.

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

I’ve always tried to be independent. It’s just my personality. I’ve always been the type to motivate the camp. I’ve always wanted to be the fuel for something—for music, the fuel for my family, the fuel for my best friend. Helping someone with what I’m doing.

When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

I don’t worry about overexposure [in work], I think it’s important just to go in, and think about quality work and try to put the best movies out.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.