Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

The best proof of love is trust.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

First there wasn't, then there was. Before God no one was.

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

I want to do things where the talent range is difficult and that scare me. I thrive on that; if it's not scaring me then I'm not growing.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.