It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"

Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

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.

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.