“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.

I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle. I make mistakes but learn from every one.

Your vote will decide which party controls the United States Senate and the direction of our country.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it’s an old system that we can’t control.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.