Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

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.

Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

I'm trying to make myself sound better.

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES!

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

The best way to hold customers is to constantly figure out how to give them more for less.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.