If you are what you do, then when you don't, you aren't.

Our intention creates our reality.

If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.

There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.

Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.