Make friends with nature by working in harmony with her and she will make friends with you.

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.

To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.

Look where you are going because you will inevitably go where you are looking.

Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.

Life. Is a sentence, therein, weave your story toward freedom.

Action is eloquence.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like the cold metal that inhabited my mouth for 2 years.

By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

I feel like a good song is one that ticks all the boxes, but a great song is one that has this kind of special quality that just resonates with people.