If I actively practice gratitude, I am able to keep myself grounded in the high times and lift myself up in the low times.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
Look twice before you leap.
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an oppressed minority. This is such a lie. American women are the most fortunate class of people who ever lived on the face of the earth.
A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.