Want more energy? Drink water. Sleep deep. Love passionately. Eat clean. Forgive completely. Create something new.

Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.

I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient...for now.

You were born into this life equipped to succeed. You are a part of God’s perfect plan. Yes, you. The plan would not be perfect if you were missing. Think about that. You matter more than you know.

Focus on the win and you lose the battle, focus on the battle and you win.

Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.

I can only change the world by changing myself.

It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. Trust your every step because none of us walk this journey alone.

Oh, child, my child, if only you realized who you truly are.

Miracles happen when dreamers take action.

Don’t you dare focus your energy on the 99 reasons something can’t be done. Focus on the one thing you can do and the 99 won’t matter.

The world is full of ways and means to waste time

Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year.

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.