“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

“The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.”

“I'm not asking you to become cynical or highhandedly judgmental. But I am asking you to attend to factual, observable information to determine the required level of self-protection.”

“Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!”

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

“Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.”

“To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth...is potentially to have everything.”

“I'm young as morning and fresh as dew. Everybody loves me and so do you.”

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”

“The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment. Staking a claim in right now.”

“If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife—everything that represents the fullness of your life—you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conquered.”

“If you do not know where you stand within yourself, where does that leave you? When you stand centered in your own space, it will become clearer what your choices are and which ones to make.”

“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”

“Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.”

“If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play—if we want to change the world—we must first show up on the field to score.”

“Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.”

“The number one law of money is this: Power attracts money, but powerlessness repels it.  Money on its own cannot do anything without you.”

“You can never solve a financial problem with money. The only way for you to have a larger net worth is for you to go within to see why you are going without.”

“We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.”

“Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often, finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.”