Marianne Williamson

You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.

Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.

If I just want to 'start a conversation,' I don't need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you're not running for office.

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.

People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal.

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.

As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.

In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how mocked he was when he predicted hand-to-hand combat in Baghdad. I remember Candy Crowley, and other reporters as well, treating his views on the impending war as ridiculous, out there, almost insane.

We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn't believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it's owned by a small group of people, we realize it's biased, etc.

People are starting to wake up to the fact that a media/political party-complex basically decide our candidate, then create the illusion for the rest of us that in fact we're the ones who did the deciding.

There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.

Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.

In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts.

My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.

I love prayer candles, and I use them often.

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to change - how we need to ameliorate deep poverty, heal the earth, end war.

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

Being a mother makes everything more urgent.

Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.

The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.

Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.

When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't talk about. And that hasn't always been easy for me.

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.

America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.

An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.

I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

When America does what's right, it's such a light on this planet.

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will explode in our society if we do not address the huge amount of suffering in our midst.

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.

Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.

Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.

Corporate America is not dumb; it's worked hard to sew up both political parties in its nefarious schemes to place their short-term economic interests before the health and well-being of the average American.

The holidays are only holy if we make them so.

We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.