I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

He always believed that people live up or down to the amount of trust you put in them.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

We all have our demons, even if we say we don't.

As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.

There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.