“I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

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.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

He who never says “no” is no true man.

If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.

When you have a well developed body and you’re confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Feel good about yourself. You have been blessed and you might not have even realized it.

I don’t think I’m better than other people, I think I’m different from other people, because I do different things.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.