To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.

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.

An individual is no match for history.

It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.

Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop.

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.