The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do.

Man passes away his name perishes from record and recollection his history is as a tale that is told and his very monument becomes a ruin.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Travel can transform communities and lives around the world... Imagine if we got to a place where people can go on holidays as their way of giving back.

I photograph Nature, which includes human beings.

When the middle class thrives, the country thrives, and when it doesn't, we don't.

Great passions are incurable diseases.

I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem.