Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.

Now I know what success is: living your truth, sharing it.

Decide what your truth is. Then live it.

No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

One thing I've learned: we don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.

Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.

If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you.

To be kind to everyone is a divine beauty.

I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me - pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply.

Thanks [Donald] Trump for exposing evangelicals as 'shameless hypocrites'.

To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.

We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.

Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.