Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.

Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.

Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse

If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.

The recent years of the Grant Study have shown that our lives when we are old are the sum of all of our loves.

Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.

It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

Vision and purpose fix our character.

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

I'm so sick of Betty White. Never liked her.

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.