Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.

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.

To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents. To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world.

She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.

God loved me before I actually was.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!

The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.