I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Understanding your own anatomy and how it functions is crucial to changing your thinking and changing your life.

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

Love - the more you share with others, the more you have.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.