You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.

Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.

Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.

Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.

The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential

Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.