"Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people."

"I was living Tom’s life. There are only so many material things you can have before it becomes boring. There are only so many dinners, so many things you can buy. I was complacent. I was in a wealthy …"

"Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably n…"

"The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be."

"...if you increase living standards you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States."