The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.

Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

Showing up fully exactly where you are is the fastest way to get where you want to go!

When it comes to forks in the road, your heart always knows the answer, not your mind.

It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?

In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time.

There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Obstacles are only in your view when you don't have a clear enough focus on your goal.

You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.

Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

Remember that nurturing yourself is as important (if not more so) as nurturing others.

Live a life of prayer, giving glory to God and continually listening for His guidance.

When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.

Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.

Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.

The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.

To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.

Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.

I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.

The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept.

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