You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

If you are open to life’s lessons and do not feed on beliefs and prejudices, you are like a blank sheet of paper on which God writes his messages to you in holy ink.

We live by encouragement and die without it -- slowly, sadly, and angrily.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?

I really believe in clothes that are new, that are innovative - but that everybody wants to wear.

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.