For the first time, I wasn’t afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.
The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant – and the success will naturally follow...
Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.
All you need to do is know who you are.
I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
Step through new doors. The majority of the time there’s something fantastic on the other side.
You have a gift that only you can give the world – that’s the whole reason you’re on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.
What I know for sure: Often we don’t even realize who we’re meant to be because we’re so busy trying to live out someone else’s ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that’s greater than other people and greater than myself.
I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.
You get from the world what you give to the world.
I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.
It’s time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.
The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.
You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.
Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.
Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.
There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.