A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Remove failure as an option and your chances for success become infinitely better.

Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.

It is reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The eay I choose to see the world creates the world I see.

Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.

To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow - that is the secret to being happy.

Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.

Your medical tests are in. You're short fat and bald.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.

Short on money, long on hope

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.