I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

Act the way you WANT to feel.

I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging."

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Life is fun. celebrate. If you aren't being kicked, the world probably thinks you are dead anyways.

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period

Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?" "What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said. "Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.

A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast.