Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

The future begins today.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens you.

My vote is my secret.

Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.

What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.

It's the same as saying, you know, "I'll smoke, but that's up to me." Doctors don't recommend it. I don't recommend smoking. It's a bad idea. Smoking or spanking. Bad ideas.

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.