Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.

There's just as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.

Patience is seeing each step as a journey rather than seeing a journey as a thousand steps.

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

Nothing in the world is as certain as death.

Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.

An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino

A selfish man is a thief.

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.