“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”

Our problem is not that we don’t have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

Bless more; blame less.

Imagine the most outrageously positive possibility for your life, claim it, and consider it done.

In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.

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

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.

Love isn’t material. It’s energy. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

You don’t need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.

Whatever situation you’re in: Send love, place it in God’s hands, open your heart to everyone involved – and it will turn out miraculously.

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

Living meaningfully is what brings joy.

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.

Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.

Children and young people are the future; they are our strength; they are what keep us moving forward. They are the ones in whom we put our hope.

The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.

The visions we offer our children shape the future.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.