Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Remove failure as an option and your chances for success become infinitely better.

Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.

It is reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The eay I choose to see the world creates the world I see.

Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.

To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow - that is the secret to being happy.

Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

Losing is a bad feeling. I've never been on an undefeated team throughout high school, so I tasted defeat before. I've been taught to handle it graciously.

Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy

Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!

The central question in this election [2016] is really what kind of country we want to be and what kind of future we'll build together.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

If we should die trying to live, at least we live like human beings.