One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed

Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.

Many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential. So whether you get your hair done less or your hair cut less, or your nails done less, as a writer and a speaker I was very clear that corporations weren't being as open and as generous and I wasn't getting the kind of work that I usually got.

You've got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself.

I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.