Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

Act the way you WANT to feel.

I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging."

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

It’s you and me, and all you have to do is breathe. I’m going to take care of everything else.

I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.

The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.

Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle.

It does no good to be right, if what you're craving is wrong.

I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.