Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.

If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of probabilities; angry, judgmental, critical and defensive will create another one altogether.

For what we engage, we transform. And what we engage with our hearts is transformed forever.

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.