Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on 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.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.

I have lived according to rules that I embrace, but I don't feel like my job is to force others to embrace the rules that I embrace for myself.