Fixed points of a mapping and Hyers-Ulam stability

We show that many general results on Hyers-Ulam stability of some functional equations in a single variable follow immediately from a simple fixed point theorem. The theorem is formulated for self-maps of some subsets of the space of functions from a nonempty set into the set of reals. We also give some applications of that theorem, e.g., in investigations of solutions of some difference equations and functional inequalities.