...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

Learning continuously is the best way to build one's intellectual capacity.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

Humility is the cornerstone of leadership.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.