“Make it a habit to tell people thank you.”

Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.

Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you’ll have much to live for.

Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Look up from what you’re doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you’re in.

Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Your life is always moving toward something.

Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness.

Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.

So what on Earth there isn’t to like about New York? I don’t know. But what you do also have is a load of very ordinary restaurants which you make a terrible fuss about which are really only very average. Which is fine. One doesn’t go to New York for the food.

It’s better to make fun of yourself because you’ve always got someone around to make fun of, and they can’t sue you.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.

It’s good to make your brain work more than your body.