Don't be the best in the world. Be the best for the world.

It's not trespassing to go beyond your own boundaries.

Do we choose to see possibilities? Do we really believe that they're there? Perception controls our reality, and if we don't believe it, we won't see it.

Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.

The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.

By celebrating what's right with the world, we find the energy to fix what's wrong.

As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility... always another right answer.

Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.

So many things begin to change when you come at the world from that perspective of more than one right answer.

Celebrate the best in people. Find the light that shines not on us, but within us, when we trust enough to let it out.

I can do what I love or I can love what I do. Learn to love the task in front of you.

The object of art is to give life a light through which you can imagine and see the world.

Religions need women. Who else would do all the work?

Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have ravaged their lives and destroyed their families.

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else.

I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.

More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states.

Even in the most difficult situation there is always, somehow, a way to triumph