The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.