“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 life”

“I'm not in pursuit of happiness, I'm happiness in pursuit; ready to happen everywhere I go.”

“Virtually everyone needs motivation of some sort, but when you are in love - that is motivation enough, it turns many into poets and painters, it spurs the creativity in you.”

“Don't let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you.”

“Life teaches us many lessons daily, even from our mishaps, only if we pay attention”

“Ive learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”