“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including hu...”

“No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.”

“In every job relationship or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are”

“There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes . . . we don't. Still the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when w...”

“When we can laugh through our tears we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad but they cannot be all that bad.”

“Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

“When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us.”

“The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.”

“I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.”

“I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.”

“I've said my patience is not infinite.”