Stuart Smalley's Daily Affirmations - In the 1990s the late night NBC comedy show SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE spawned a character named Stuart Smalley (Al Franken) who was a caring, nurturing, overeater and former alcoholic who espoused positive thinking. He maintained his good attitude by sharing daily thoughts of wisdom (usually looking into a mirror). Examples include:

• I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.

• Whining is anger coming through a very small opening.

• You're only as sick as your secrets.

• Compare and despair.

• I am a human being, not a human doing.

• Pee-wee Herman: There but for the grace of God go I.

• I'm a skeleton because its scary and because it reminds me that I am a human being. And that's okay. That's what I am. And beside, I think it makes me look thinner (a Halloween thought).

• I learned what love is from my parents. Which is that you find that one-special person who was placed on the planet just for you, and then you put them through forty years of living hell.

SNL also featured a short segment called "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey that shared such wisdom as "The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face" and " If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."