Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.

The critical part with meal spacing is that you stabilize your hormones so that you do not have those spikes in insulin that occur when you eat large meals.

Having money might not buy happiness, but how you spend it could actually make a difference.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

I dont make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

Taking a digital holiday is a great way to start bringing balance back into your life.

People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.

Passion lights the fire in every soul.

Endurance is spiritual.

Men and women are like right and left hands it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

I see loyalty - roughly perseverance in relational commitments despite the cost of such perseverance - as an important human value/virtue. Think of it as a kind of relational glue.

I hated him. I hated them all. They made me hate myself even more than I already did.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.