There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The read more

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened read more

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. read more

Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs or you can find negative signs. How you evaluate them depends on something that happened in your life recently or something like that. There's no objective way to do it. The important thing is you try to commit yourself to making the positive signs more real. Suppose you felt that there's 99 percent of a probability that human civilization is going to be destroyed in the next hundred years, but one percent chance it won't be, and that one percent offers some opportunities to do something. Well, you commit yourself to that one percent.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed read more

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work read more

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Today is just a good day in disguise.

Today is just a good day in disguise.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no read more

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. - David HockneyrnListening is a positive read more

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. - David HockneyrnListening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.