You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it

I say "Out" to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year.

Is our world gone? We say Farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man.

The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

There is something wonderfully sacred that happens when a girl chooses to realize that being set aside is actually God's call for her to be set apart.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?