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.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.

I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.

Today is just a good day in disguise.

Today is just a good day in disguise.

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.

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.