Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone’s behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them.

When you experience the clarity that comes when you choose trust and love, you can see other people accurately – as the same as you.

There are two forces in the universe: fear and love. Trust is part of love because it makes you feel safe, and it is only in this state that you are capable of love.

The most significant way you can edify another person is to see them accurately as the same as you, listen to them, and honor their right to their own thoughts and feelings.

The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.

When a person feels appreciated for their infinite and absolute value, you can then communicate about any issue and you will have their cooperation and respect.

Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are.

The purpose and point of this life is to learn and love – and it may be more specifically to learn to love.

Fear causes problems in your life because it fogs the lens through which you see yourself and your world.

All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

When you use Tabasco in the marinade, it kind of infuses everything.

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.