Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.

You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance.

I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

You really can change. Your reality is based on the way you think.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.