I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.Deborah Norville

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

Science is about the desperate effort to catch up with the 13.7 billion year-old facts (give or take an eon or two).

Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.

The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

Do what brings you joy, and your purpose will unfold.

Merlin's pants!" shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room. "Merlin's pants?" repeated Ron, looking amused. "She must be really upset.

On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.

He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.

Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.