The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw, had two big horns and a wooly jaw.

We care little about what the average citizen thinks.