I realized there was a better way to broadcast the news that empowered people to believe they could overcome challenges.

People are pulled towards the best in themselves, and spotlighting the right is a much stronger approach than nagging.

I think there is little harm in venting here and there about things, as we are all human, and it is good to express emotions.

People will often say "You can't change other people." My research shows this societal belief is not only dis-empowering, it is scientifically false.

Too quickly, venting can turn into dumping garbage on the people around us.

We are all constantly transmitting information to the people around us, and the messages we choose to communicate either create success or hold us all hold back.

There is no greater prediction in the research of our levels of happiness than the breadth and depth of our relationships.

We change people, but oftentimes we get so focused on the negative people and their influence on us, we forget how powerful we are as positive people to influence others.

Change your story, change your power.

Being in touch with the problems in the world or our lives is important, but even more important is to focus the brain on what we can do about them.

Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war.

The authentic answer is always the question’s vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open.

Either you’re with me or you’re against me. I can’t afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest game the encompassing of the infinite.

When I was in bed with Marilyn Monroe, I was never sure before, during or after, where her mind was.

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is