I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.

I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

Religious people are happier.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

Respect requires empathy, the capacity to anticipate and understand the feelings of others. It requires consideration.

Companions are we enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.

I should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and get distracted a lot.

Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

My ego is sated.

It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

I think Mel Gibson could make 'Passion of the Christ' because he really believed in it and gave it his all.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

If I'm going to mix gold and silver, I make my accessories all match.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

The best dreams are the ones you are awake for.

I grew up around hardware. I could sell you all the plumbing and electricity you want.

Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

I was brought up to reuse things.

For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.