When you cultivate love and kindness in your heart, everything around you becomes love and kindness.

The more you believe in yourself, the more the world believes in you!

Each day is a brand new opportunity to create a better version of yourself. Do not put so much pressure on your shoulders, make one ilttle change at a time.

Faith is the switch that turns the impossible into possible.

Dreams and goals must come from the heart, not fom ego,

Find magic in the little things, and the big things you always expected will start to show up.

When we better ourselves we are improving our world!

Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.

The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform, ' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

I should be European. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

That's happened a couple times: Billy Joel. It was just, "You sound like Billy Joel." And I get really upset about that. No offense to that guy, but it's not for me.