Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown.

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation

Spirituality isn't static. It's an evolving optimism that won't let hardship get the best of you.

Trust your intuition. It is the best friend you will ever have.

Remove the emotional and physical clutter from your life so you can soar.

Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.

Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.

The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have.

Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

The fact that it is sometimes difficult for me to believe in God doesn't mean that I deny his existence. If I stopped believing in him, I wouldn't be able to continue living.

You cannot travel to the known

Teaching kids to count is fine but teaching them what counts is best.

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.

I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard.

The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.