Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.

Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture.

Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.

Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

Stress is an unstranformed opportunity for empowerment.

How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

When you can live forever what do you live for?

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.

Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.