The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

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.

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

It’s sometimes difficult to align our wants with our needs, for old programing and new paradigms vibrate at very different levels.

She's not close enough. She'll never be close enough...

Eating a burrito is like eating a living, breathing organism - you can feel the burrito's ingredients sigh inside with each bite, each squeeze.

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.