I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.

when you forgive people, events and circumstances, you are in the process of change, which leads you towards dominant universal emotion called love.

The business of business is relationships the business of life is human connection.

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

That's Joe Biden right there - unbowed, unbroken and unable to stop talking.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?