Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich is not so dark. I see.

A little orange will put a spring into your day.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.

Don't ever let anyone shake your faith in yourself, because that's really all that you have.

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

The human heart is a dark forest.