The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one famiy grow up under the same roof

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

That's why their realization is not integrated and complete, and they must go through many, many lifetimes very often before that acceptance will take place.

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

The game isn't over till the clock says zero.

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

Listen to your fear but don't obey it.

If we continue to devalue ourselves we cannot realistically expect respect from others.

Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.