“To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.”

“It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up—planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. But a guerrilla is on his own. All you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that’s all you need — and a lot of heart.”

“I want Dr. King to know that I didn’t come to Selma to make his job difficult. I really did come thinking I could make it easier. If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King.”

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”

“The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.”

“Anything’s possible, almost.”

High risk is high adrenaline.

“I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”

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“When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

“Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don’t feel worthy once they have them.”

“My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.”

“When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us.”

“I don’t want anyone who doesn’t want me.” – Oprah Winfrey

“I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.”

“Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don’t have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.”

“Everyone is the keeper of a dream.” – Oprah Winfrey

“You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”

“I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoy the process.”

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”

“True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”

“If friends disappoint you over and over, that’s in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren’t going to change simply because you want them to.”