Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

Not everybody can identify a purpose in life. But when you do, and when you pursue it, you will be living the kind of life you feel you were meant to live. And what's more, you will be happy.

But I give best when I give from that deeper place; when I give simply, freely and generously, and sometimes for no particular reason. I give best when I give from my heart.

Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish much. In any relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

Learn - improve - grow - live. Learn as if you might live forever and you'll live as if you might die tomorrow.

It's true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It's a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.

It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.

Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you'll know what it means to live.

Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?

We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don't have to stay down.

My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable.

Never having been able to succeed in the world he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

I'm a mom first. That's all I really care about - being a good mom and a good wife. The writing always comes second for me.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

There is a power in people who dream big and who try hard.

I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.