Too often we look back on our lives with regret. What is done, is done. We learned lessons from those mistakes. Every day is a new beginning.

Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves… to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence…

Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal.

Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth.

Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.

We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day.

The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations.

Real life isn't purely filled with roses and rainbows.

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.

I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.

Kids; 10 seconds of joy, 30 years of misery

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.