I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name.

Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

The more you notice the love, the miracles and the beauty around you, the more love comes into your life.

The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings.

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.

The weight of your words is more important than the volume of your voice!

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.

There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

It is a major world power, and today it is an economic and military leader - no doubt about it. That is why America has a strong influence on the situation in the world in general.