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.

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.

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

Focusing on solutions fuels progress.

He was going to embrace love every day. He would appreciate the world every hour. And he will believe in God every second

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

Come from your knees to the sermon, and come from the sermon to your knees

Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.

My production team doesn't like not knowing what anything is going to look like, but creatively, that's fun.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.