My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

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.

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

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.

The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Good people equals good management and good management equals good people.

One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.