You can't have a better past.

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.

Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs.

I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world.

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

Politics is cyclical.

I dreamed I was buying new shoes last night," said Ron. "What d'ya think that's gonna mean?" "Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry.

I have discovered that enemies will buy your books as much as your fans buy your books because they're looking for something new to hate you for.

I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.