Williamson: "Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve."

Williamson: "Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn't just happen - people made it happen. And marriage equality didn't just happen, either - people made it happen."

Williamson: "When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce."

Williamson: "We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder."

Williamson: "In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it."

Williamson: "The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle."

Williamson: "Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable."

Williamson: "Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth."

Williamson: "If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed."

Williamson: "Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one."

Williamson: "Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world."

Williamson: "Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse."

Williamson: "The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."

Williamson: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."

Williamson: "The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another."

Williamson: "As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others."

Williamson: "Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die."

Williamson: "You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us."

Williamson: "The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts."

Williamson: "There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure."

Williamson: "Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul."

Williamson: "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness."

Williamson: "Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it."