Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believethey should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward

Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

The word is like a seed, and the human mind is so fertile, but only for those kinds of seeds it is prepared for.

The Four Agreements:1. Be impeccable with your word.2. Don't take anything personally. 3. Don't make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you commit

The Four Agreements1. Be impeccable with your word.2. Don’t take anything personally.3. Don’t make assumptions.4. Always do your best.

Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.

It is unnecessary to spoil your precious involvements with a person with some word. We cannot name and express every human relationship or feeling, and we confine our involvements by naming them.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I'm 25 in the rest of the world, but I'm about 48 in actress years. I'm just around the corner from my midlife crisis.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.

In love, first please the eye, then win the heart.

I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material.