I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Remove failure as an option and your chances for success become infinitely better.

Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.

It is reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The eay I choose to see the world creates the world I see.

Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.

To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow - that is the secret to being happy.

Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

To a good approximation, all species are insects.

I am careful not to look anyone in the face because I don't want them to see the shame in my eyes, and I also don't want to see the laughter in theirs.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

i play a mean harmonica

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.