Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.

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.

He knew himself well enough that once she was gone he wouldn’t last regardless. His heart would simply stop beating without her.

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and direct all your energies towards it.

This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do.

If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible