The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture.

Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.

Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.

Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

Stress is an unstranformed opportunity for empowerment.

How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity

I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

For me, what grabs my attention about the project is usually the character immediately and then the story, and then the people that are involved.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.