I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing more than to stand shoulder to shoulder with my men. I am nothing without them.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That's also true of tennis; the ball is getting faster and faster.

A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!

My job on The Gunslinger Born was to take Stephen King's novel and transform it into a detailed, seven issue, scene-by-scene story.