The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

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?

His only fault is that he has no fault.

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

For truth there is no deadline.

What doesn't kill you makes you smaller

Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice