What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

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.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.

Music reminds us that the universe loves us

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

Save what you can toward the emergency and life happens fund. But don't worry yourself sick at the slow growth. The point is it's growing even it's just one dollar at at time.

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals.