If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creating a space where people can be inspired.

I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that is not necessarily reflected in straight news coverage right now.

Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.

Your mind simply cant focus forward and downward all at the same time.

Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life.

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled

I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment.

When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

Big can be beautiful - just not to me. I find you disgusting; freshmen 15 is not a life sentence.

Actually, most people don't think I have too much sense because I would rather be fairly intelligent and act dumb instead of not having any sense at all and try to act smart.

Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.