I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

Constraint inspires creativity

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

We are all different, and should do what we can do te remain so.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.