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 post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.

In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.

When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes its the best kind of journalism as long you dont confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

People say sticks and stones may break your bones but names can never hurt you but thats not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still havent forgotten.

There is a universal truth that all successful people know: Nothing is ever done until you take action.

Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

Apologies are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move on, you can grow, you can do better in the future.

Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through you at some point.

Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy.

If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.

I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.

The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

I was the most subtle person in the world.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.

Having Wayne in town will be exciting enough.