Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

I want you to be my last kiss of the year and the first of next

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Become a documentarian of what you do.

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That's what is at stake.

We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.