Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

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

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.