American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'

When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

Decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world.

Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

America is too great for small dreams.

When love arrests your heart, pray she sentences it for eternity.

The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

I'm going to be me at the end of the day. And I think my family appreciates that. They're happy for me that I'm finding out who I am, and I'm content with that.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.

And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?