The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

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.

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

The best defense is not to offend.

New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth.

If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

Is your relationship strong enough to survive a trip to Ikea? Is their furniture strong enough to survive a relationship? Have you ever bought a bed there?

I like digital because you can shoot for longer.

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other.