My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.

I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell.

As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog.

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

Don’t concern yourself with the money. Be of service ... build ... work ... dream ... create! Do this and you’ll find there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.

Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]

Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

For many years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.