What we do makes a difference and what we think about influences what we do.

Emotions are the road signs to your happiness.

Social media allows us to subjugate feelings and problems we don't want to confront, like emotional eating or substance abuse, thus perpetuating our problems and delaying our happiness.

Utter frustration often precedes the breakthrough so stick with it and have faith in your journey.

Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.

When you walk around feeling quietly upset, frustrated, angry or some other negative emotion, people around you will detect it to some degree or another, even if only subconsciously.

Whatever you focus your mind on, you will consciously and subconsciously work towards.

Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings.

Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.

Our emotions are encoded in the heart signals we emit. Use the energy you feel to know how they are feeling.

How we make people feel shapes how they feel about us.

Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve

Cowards drown in a pond. The extraordinary flourish in the middle of the ocean.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.