The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive 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.

Be a Force of Good in the World. You can't change everything.

Christmas was an ingenious plan designed by God to lay siege to the hearts of all men by submitting Himself to the greed of all men.

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.

I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted.

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

We all have choices. (Astrid) No we don’t, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates what we have to do to survive. (Zarek)

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.