I think the violence in the world right now is being reflected inside people. And I also believe the violence inside people is being reflected in the world.

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.

By faith in [Jesus] we can be forgiven of our sins and know the joy of following Him every day.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.