When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience.

I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

One believes in what one wants to believe in.

Working on The Daily Show, I co-produced all those field segments, and that's another huge thing.I probably did more than 100 field segments.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

The whole reason to study (and learn to control) body language is to have that support (rather than undercut) your message.