It's not always as comfortable blazing the trail as it is walking on it.

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 you enjoy the little beauties in and around you, it costs you nothing.

If the lifestyle choices outlined in this book were uniformly adopted, the savings in suffering and health care costs would be tremendous.

Though language forms the preacher 'Tis "good works" make the man.

When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

I'm not a dogmatic Christian and I don't believe in the Bible literally, but I realized that Jesus is basically a very Zen dude.