Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

The flocks fear the wolf the crops the storm and the trees the wind.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

No, I've never truly been a minister.

I love being physical. It makes me feel like I sickly love the pain of it.

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, Jesus himeself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.

Good poets borrow, great poets steal