I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.

I was just thinking when I was a young girl I never knew what every young girl was supposed to know. And now I am going to be an old lady I don't know what every old lady is supposed to know.

Let's go to the food court and try some food.

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...

If I'm a little girl, then that makes you a serious pervert.

I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

For me, I believe in God, God is real.