There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.

If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.

"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

Hate flows from a broken spirit.

By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she.

He kisses like a poet. Like he's writing poems on my lips.

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

Don't be fooled by your emptiness, there's so much more room for happiness.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.