What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Our intention creates our reality.

If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

Believe in yourself and the world will follow suit.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends.

One should always be a little improbable.

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.