Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and punt on any positive momentum you created.

Giving appreciations, praise, and gratitudes feels good and puts good vibes in the environment.

Whenever we criticize ourselves, we compound the issue.

Good planning is the foundation of success for almost any project. Start by getting clear on your goal.

Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole.

Along with bathing and eating your veggies, releasing emotions needs to become part of our daily routines.

We have a choice at every moment. We can engage in sadness, anger or fear or we can choose joy, love, and peace.

When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works.

Releasing the emotional energy and focusing on acceptance dissipates anger and restores balance.

The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.

Intuition comes from within. It's what you know when you're quiet and still.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.

I typically get around to most major cities at least once a year. I think people see that as their chance to go nuts for the year if they're into the style of music.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

My style is ever evolving. My style is tomorrow.

Swift as shadow, short as any dream