The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.

There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to the morning! come down to me, my beautiful unknown.

I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.