Open your eyes and see how many gifts there are to unwrap. Notice the presence of your presents. It’s not your life that is disappointing: it’s your mind.

To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "Ugly is, as Ugly does!

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?

It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food.

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

The angels can be thought of as our prayer partners.