The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

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.

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.

Capitalism needs war.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it

I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything.

You might be a redneck if you watch cartoons long after your kids get bored.

I was part of the journey of a remarkable man [Barack Obama] who did remarkable things.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.