If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram.

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person's darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out.

The key to serenity is trusting that the universe has your back.

The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.

Be faithful that your authentic power is all you need to truly share your light with the world.

You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.

Take action once a day to do something that ignites your life.

A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.

Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.

Let go of what you think you need & what you really need will show up.

It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."

I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and the snow - soaked soil just warming into life.