The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.

When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

Each and every decision you make, regardless of its level of intensity, is vitally important as you seek to do God’s will.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing and if you are good enough at it the money will come.

Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.

Not too many people know who the editor is.

Fashion is an instant language.

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.