Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.

Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

When flying dreams hit the soil of reality, all that remains are the imprints of experience.

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

Unconditional love is our birthright!

That sums up why it's crazy to meet Paul McCartney because he's the type of n - - that needs that.

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer to the reality.

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

I don't believe in the afterlife.