I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.

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.

You need focus and concentration to be effective in life

Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.

Unless you clear those once stubborn self-limiting beliefs and fears you will find the NAPS you have recorded is simply a waste of your time in doing so.

Anger and hatred lead to fear; compassion and concern for others allow us to develop self-confidence, which breeds trust and friendship.

If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.