Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

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 think I feel automatically at home in Italy

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather read.

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.

The first magic wave kicked the world in the face.

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.