Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win...that's what matters.

I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.