Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.

The best proof of love is trust.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

What's another word for thesaurus?

I believe that parents who love their children do everything for them with love, even discipline.

Life must be enjoyed to be truly lived.

You have far more power to heal and be healthy than you ever dreamed possible. Your health is not outside of you. And you don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

War determines not who is right but who is left.