Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.

By pursuing any one of our dreams, we can find fulfillment. We don't need to pursue them all.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.