The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

See it big, and keep it simple.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Ian willed all his energy, all his strength through that touch and into Chris. Take it, take everything, babe. I'm yours.

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.