“A person can't make a career out of somebody else's invective.”

“What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's…. That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.”

“There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.”

“As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.”

“Everyday I fight a war against the mirror.
I can't take the person starin' back at me.
I'm a hazard to myself.Don't let me get me.
I'm my own worst enemy.
Its bad when you annoy yourself,
So irritating.
Don't wanna be my friend no more.
I wanna be somebody else.
I wanna be somebody else, yeah.”

“But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.”

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

“One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.”

“I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”

“If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.”