No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.

Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.

Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

. . . there was a softness to Cash’s gaze that made her want to lean into it. It felt like being stroked with a paintbrush, all the way down her body, leaving everything tingling in its wake.

Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be.

I can't shut my brain off. It's like a hamster wheel." ~ Justin

Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.