Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job.Forget about the thorns - the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy your life.

Purpose and pleasure are two cornerstones of happiness

the way to happiness- keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

One of the most tragic things I know about the human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Life is like a roller-coaster with highs and lows. So quit complaining about it and enjoy the ride !!

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of superior personality

The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.

The reason I actually ran for office is because of Hillary Clinton. Everybody was telling me why I shouldn't run: I was too young, I had small children, I should start at the school board level.

I pride myself in taking care of my mind, body and soul, and not just through exercise.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

It sounds to me like hes hit rock bottom and hes asking to be disciplined.

A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.

When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk... If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they'll get more extreme.

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

I don't have anything else to prove.

I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If you treat that person with respect, that's fine, that's the way to go. But if you don't, you're not being the parent you could be.

Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts.

The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.

Most obstacles are imaginary the rest are only temporary.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days?

I've got a love affair with Harley-Davidson. One of my earliest photos with my dad is of him holding me as a baby on his bike.