When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Remember, you are co-creating your life with the energy of your own intentions.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.