We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

I’d trade my soul for a wish.

Kissing babies and hugging fat girls.

Now it's our turn to kick some tail!

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

Our responsibility begins with our imagination.

our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.