Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Action is only taken when one needs change. Change happens when action is needed to make a positive impact. Ones reaction to change is what determines the outcome.

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.