Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.

Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

One should look forward rather than backwards.

The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. And it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities, just like a coral.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

I leave the politics at the office when I go out.