Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.

It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging."