To be interested in the PUBLIC GOOD we MUST be disinterested, that is, not interested in GOODS in which our personal SELVES are wrapped up.

Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that's what most WRITERS discover if they WRITE LONG enough: there are a lot of selves roaming around in there.

One day we will finally SEE that when we reject any PERSON or group of people, we reject a part of our very SELVES. All are one. All are in. All are God's beloved CHILDREN with a PLACE at the table.

One is SORRY one could not have taken both branches of the ROAD. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

Adolescence is when girls experience social PRESSURE to PUT ASIDE their authentic selves and to display only a small PORTION of their GIFTS.

I can no more separate my SERIOUS concerns about the world from my cockeyed WAY of seeing it than I can keep apart my PERSONAL and professional selves.

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to GROW our faith. We require the tangle of other SOULS to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one ANOTHER and to help us UNDERSTAND more deeply our BETTER Selves (big 'S').

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their EVERYDAY selves. That people can be lifted into their BETTER selves is the SECRET of transforming leadership.

In the END, EVERYONE just DESERVES the RIGHT to be their authentic SELVES, just be who they are.

We're all born with the capacity to be our best selves - to be who we really are. Then we hear the messages that EXIST in our fear-based society, and we get BEATEN down. Being confident means peeling away the DOUBT, fear, and worry and getting back to our core. Confident PEOPLE have learned how to get back to their pure selves.

Being productive at work is REWARDING, and FEELING supported, CHALLENGED, and appreciated allows us to be our most efficient SELVES.

After being a MOM, we are now in a different chapter in our womanhood, and INSTEAD of trying to be our OLD selves or get our old BODY BACK, we should embrace who we are now.

When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely... save to those who freely GIVE themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless SELVES.

People REMAIN unknowable to us, EVEN people that we're very close to. And I THINK the same goes for our own selves.

Of COURSE we all know when music's too much in the head, and we DEFINE our greatest players by the WAY they are ABLE to communicate directly from their emotional selves.