I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.