Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Gratitude...here at home our faith dwindlespolitical division causes tensions to kindle -we should never forgetwho stands at the door -who shields us with armorand shall forever more...

It was a room full of ghosts, arranged in readiness for days that would never happen.

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read "Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a day just to fetch water". And I couldn't help thinking, she should move.

At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

When people say no to me, I say, "Don't say no to me. There is a waywe can work this out."