The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

And if we do not stand now, then when will a stand be taken against evil?

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.

You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.