People are like lights. Some are colored lights and draw attention to themselves. Others are clear lights. They shine on people in around them.

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.

Never marry a person who is not a friend of your excitement.

Daniel in the den

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.

The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.

Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.

I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered as symbol later.