Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.

Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture.

Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.

Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.

Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

Stress is an unstranformed opportunity for empowerment.

How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

You are the byproduct of your level of consciousness, thoughts, and actions.

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars

That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia.

Love will conquer at the last.

When in doubt, wear a suit.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

When progress is in short supply bring a surplus of determination.