Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.

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?

If you want a new look, get a new hair style.

Minutes turn into hours, and lifetimes into moments. Universes are created and destroyed with nary a pop. What was saved, no longer ex- ists. What was lost, no longer matters.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.

Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Any cook should be able to run the country.