...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.