I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!

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.

We all have our alloted portions of black and white paint

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

The boy who walks in the light.

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Sin will take you farther than you ever intended to go, it will cost you more than you ever expected to pay, and it will keep you longer than you ever intended to stay.