While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.

Work at being a humble person.

Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward.

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.

To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

Sell a stock only when you have found a new stock that is a 50% better bargain than the one that you hold.

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.

I think tone gives birth to the story.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.

There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.