So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

Today and every day, live and lead the memory you want to leave behind.

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

The signs of sociopathy are usually there before we are abused

How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?The patients get better and leave.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

The only game. The game of thrones.

Nowadays you can't be loud enough!

If people just put away what's left at the end of the month, that's a recipe for failure.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Sometimes, less is more.