I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

It is even possible to be a martyr for the Faith and yet not love Jesus Christ.

Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day. They're little druggies.

Every day, put a little makeup on, put on some nice underwear, and you'll keep your husband.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.