I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen.

My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work.

I'm inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.

You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.

I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.

Grateful that it brought me to a point of really seeing myself and really seeing where I was imbalanced, and really seeing it was a message from the Divine that changed my life.

Definitely an intelligence in the light of the heart. In yoga, we refer to this as the heart center - right behind the breastbone, and visualize it as a golden candle flame of light and spirit.

Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.

I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.

I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing.

I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'