I think with practice, you can being whatever you want to be, and with a goal you can go in any direction that you want to go in.
We are born knowing death.
God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.
One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.
Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.
I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.
You cannot be to wedded to your past accomplishments.
It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.
I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.
Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.