Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

The family is the pattern of heaven.

The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated. It's a weird kind of vicious circle.

The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations.

Lynn, my wife, would very much appreciate if I had a talent for anything besides music.

A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.