The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Money can cloud your vision.

Today could be the day you live at your creative best.

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act write speak be I'll be sending messages on a ouija board cryptic complaints from the other side.

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list.

I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.