Doing for others may be the only way to create lasting well-being.

If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual.

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person.

You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.

Make work a purpose, not just a place.

When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more.

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.

If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.

The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house!

And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much." -Acheron