Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose.

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

Love is the life spring of our existence. The more love you give, the happier you feel and the more love you will have within you to give.

The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world.

In every crisis there is a message.

Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.

No animal has to suffer for me to live.

I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.

Use a mirror in difficult times. You will see both cause and resolution.

May the Child Jesus be the star that guides you through the desert of your present life.