Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.