Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

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.

If I die tomorrow, you aren't allowed to say my life was cut short at age 25. I did more in those years than most people will ever do.

They are rich who have true friends.

Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.

Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.

Love is like the lion’s tooth.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.