“Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.”

Seeing and admitting the truth about ourselves, about our role in creating our own problems, and about how we relate to others is vital for healing.

Every single choice we make is either going to enhance the spirit or drain it. Every day, we’re either giving ourselves power or taking it away.

To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina.

The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you’re seeing God clearly.

Knowing that every single day is so filled with potential – you cannot wait for life to give you anything. You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.

Human reasoning can never answer the mysteries of our lives.

Managing the power of choice, with all it’s creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.

You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Get bored with your past, it’s over!

Never, ever mistreat someone who loves you. Because you’re not entitled to that love.

Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it’s just not talking.

Never blame another person for your personal choices – you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.

Follow your pain as if it were a candle in the night, leading you to a place of decision.

A breakthrough occurs when you recognize, you are more energy than matter.

I’m not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing’s going to change. I revel in the change.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Be cool to people. Be nice to as many people as you can. Smile to as many people as you can, and have them smile back at you.

I’m the type of person to put myself in everybody else’s shoes.

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you’ve got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.

You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.