Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice.

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.