What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

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.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

The life I am experiencing, good or bad, is the collective result of the choices I have made, knowingly or unknowingly. When I accept this, I acknowledge that I have the power to create my destiny.

I can't eat more than six hundred dollars worth of food.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

I love talking to all the kids, and have enjoyed the enthusiasm and response from their teachers as well.

Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail.