Be the spark—live light!

Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.

Doing something for the mere joy of it—for one's self or others—is quite possibly one of the best returns on an investment of time that a person can receive.

When we inhabit our own life—stop doing things based on the approval of others—we offload baggage and trade up to joy!

Joy is inexplicable peace that comes from within.

All of us at some time will have someone to forgive for something they did or failed to do. And all of us at some time will need forgiveness for something we did or failed to do.

Don't allow yourself to be held hostage by the opinion of others.

Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift ourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health—body, mind, and spirit.

Life is an expression of the choices we make.

Just as we expect others to value our boundaries, it's equally important for us to respect the boundaries of others.

One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines.

Nature is the reality, diverging from the nature counts runny from the truth, live on nature, walk under trustworthness

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

Would I ever find forever love? Do I really want to, when forever was a word without meaning?

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.