From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

A good joke is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticized.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men—the other 999 follow women.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Never eat more than you can lift.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

The more I study science the more I believe in God.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.