The problems presented by difficult individuals contribute to your growth and evolution—another reason for filling yourself with gratitude, appreciation, and love!

You raise the level of universal well-being by choosing to focus with gratitude on your blessings.

Your happiness—and your healing—are a function of how you choose to respond on the inside to that which is taking place on the outside.

You have the power to feel good—or not—just by being conscious of what you choose to think. Choose to focus on hope and healing.

When you choose self-love, you are reclaiming your awareness of your own power, which raises your vibrational energy and contributes to your healing.

Healing is anything that restores your inner sense that all is well, and that returns you to a healthy state of empowerment.

Negative feelings weigh you down and can keep you from experiencing healing, as surely as stones might weigh you down if you were trying to swim.

to an uncircumcised father, irreverent son.

the only weapon you have got to conquer fear, it is will not to fail

There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

For small businesses, regulatory burdens can be overwhelming.

Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness.

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.