Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

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.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

At times people who are extremely sad become lighthearted for the most trivial reasons, merely to obtain the relief furnished by the exactly opposite condition.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.

For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.