In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.

The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it.

Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.

Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that's what life is.

In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.

don't look in my eyes you will fall into a deep well and drown

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

You can't hear me? Read my lips!

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.