Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation

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.

Just think life's too short to get hung up on maybes.

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

I'm a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect!

Going to auditions is always so nerve-wracking. I don't think they ever get any easier.

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

There are two very different types of hope in this world. One is hoping for something, and the other is hoping in Someone.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.