If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.

When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

You can always become the person you would have liked to be.

I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.