It is what you think of this situation that governs you and not the situation itself. Causation is always in mind and not in things.

You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself

The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered.

It is not what is happening to you but rather what is happening in you that determines whether you succeed or fail.

Perpetual emotion is the past time of the undisciplined mind.

Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, 'Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.'

The facade of grief may be indifference, preoccupation, anger, cheerfulness, or any variety of emotions. But if we try to understand it, we may learn how to cope with it.

Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent, " Sazed said quietly.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

Champions take responsibility.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

I am going to name a group of my kids after my favorite cartoons, I am going to name them after Transformers.

A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

Husbands are never happy. My husband asked me for more space, so I locked him out of the house.