We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them.

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.

Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

Use the light to return to clarity.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.