How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture.

Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.

Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.

Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

Stress is an unstranformed opportunity for empowerment.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

The need in me beautiful is to look back on you forever!!

A book is a writer's will:ideas are the inheritance.

God prefers your health and your obedience to your penance.

My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.

I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.

What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

We were just hanging out and getting to learn about each other. But I think trust was a really big thing. Patti [Smith] is a good friend, somebody I can talk to.

Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.