I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

Never eat potato chips without first opening the packet!

If not love, then what? If not now, then when?

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.