So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things.

One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

The United States has put more money on HIV, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis than any country in the world and it's having an impact real quick.

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.