It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

There is no illusion greater than fear.

[He]said something that made it impossible to continue working for him.[The exact words were]You're fired.

There is no greater peace than work and no greater happiness than progress.

I received free health care.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!

Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.

(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.