Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.
Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.
Motherhood is. . . difficult and. . . rewarding.
Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.
You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.
You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.
It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.
The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conslusion for yourself as to what life is all about.
In depression, your capacity to feel just flattens and disappears and what you feel is pain and a kind of pain that you can't describe to anybody. So it's an isolating pain, a completely isolating pain.