You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.