Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then -- we elected them.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

In parts of the world, people still pray in the streets. In this country they're called pedestrians.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.