Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.

Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy. She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.

The sum of a person's life is not determined by one action. It is what you do with the time you are given that matters.

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary.

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.