Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

Act the way you WANT to feel.

I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging."

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases.

My dad is an egomaniac.

I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.