"If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good."

"Someone has to stand up for wimps."

"Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices."

"Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable."

"A life well-lived is a testament that joy is found not in possessing, but in appreciating."

"The foundation of joy is every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?"

"We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."