The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.

We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self.

Imagine that anything is possible, and name the most amazing thing that could happen in 2013.