There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

Nothing, ' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act.

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

It’s a funny thing, friendship. One minute a person is driving you crazy, making you want to shake them, and the next minute you realize what a crappy place the world would be without them in it.

I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.

I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.

That connection between hormones and mood is so important to get a handle on, and it's also really important when you're considering taking medication.

My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.