The average pencil is seven inches long with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

Pass the bone, kid pass the bone, Let's get on this mission like Indiana Jones

Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

Without peanut butter, I might starve.

I am pretty good about taking breaks. I know when it's time to step aside and chill out.

I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone sees the invisible

I have never willingly chased a ball.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.