Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

See it big, and keep it simple.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.

I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women.

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

If we are meticulously careful with the use of the days, the years will take care of themselves.

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

i want you, and i want you forever. one lifetime is simply not enough for me.

I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.