Stillness is the altar of spirit.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

Dear God, give bread to those who are hungry and a hunger and thirst for justice to those who have plenty. Amen.

Never allow yourself to become despondent or weary, as you venture along life’s chosen path.

What God expects us to attempt He also enables us to achieve.

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

Being passionate is not what makes you a girl, it's what makes you a human.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

We’re all beautiful. We all deserve attention.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists, when there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world.