Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.

It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.

Find a happy person, and you will find a project.

Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.

There was an undoubted affinity in his mind between the two great passions of his life: revolution and good brew. The taste of one immediately brought to mind the other.

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

Police can only act on intelligence.

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.

I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting.

Banana daiquiris aren't knock-'em-back-by-the-flagon.

Certainty becomes you.