We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

In parts of the world, people still pray in the streets. In this country they're called pedestrians.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, "Get the hell off my property."

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.