The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, "I'm only human. Nobody's perfect. I accept my limitations." And we know others who take an opposite view and say, "I can do anything I choose to do. It is in my power to change the world." And those are the ones who most often change the world.

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.