What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.

Not everybody can identify a purpose in life. But when you do, and when you pursue it, you will be living the kind of life you feel you were meant to live. And what's more, you will be happy.

But I give best when I give from that deeper place; when I give simply, freely and generously, and sometimes for no particular reason. I give best when I give from my heart.

Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish much. In any relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

Learn - improve - grow - live. Learn as if you might live forever and you'll live as if you might die tomorrow.

It's true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It's a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.

It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.

Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you'll know what it means to live.

Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?

We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don't have to stay down.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots.

The food and drink that goes along with football is one of the best things: hamburgers, hotdogs, chips and dips. At the stadium I would probably get nachos, but when I'm at home we order pizza a lot.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

Fresh, fun and oh-so-romantic, WILD HEARTS had me galloping through the pages. I absolutely loved it.

Our mind is like a fog; even a moderate wind disperses it easily.

I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.