You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from 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.

(Brin) 'How good is your lawyer, on a scale of Atticus Finch to Franklin and Bash?

With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

We just all need to stick together and unite, be together and support one another.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up.

What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?