One of my core beliefs is that everything happens for a reason and some things just aren't to my taste. All the things that happen in my life are divinely inspired and they happen for a purpose.

Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate.

If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.

Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU!

Here's the problem. Most people are thinking about what they don't want, and they're wondering why it shows up over and over again.

Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.

Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change

We can have whatever it is we choose, I don't care how big it is. You become what you think about, but you also attract what you think about most.

The reason you have what you have is because that is what you have decided to settle for right now. Change your mind, change your life.

The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another, is in some way, to make that person's life a little bit better to live.

Be purposeful. Be patient, and be active!

Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred.

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'

I am in control at all times.

Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.