In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.

It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

Find a happy person, and you will find a project.

Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

When love intoxicates your heart, it is difficult for your soul to remain sober.

But this bus was a bit too full. The driver only appeared to control the glass and metal around him. In reality, he was at the nose of a travelling paroxysm.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But to be honest, I'd write even if I weren't being paid to.

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

I'm not a fashionista - I adore creative and original people with their own style.

My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.