The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

It is appalling to make Jesus out of food! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go bake some communion wafers.

With me, you never know what is going to happen

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.