Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt 'thank you,' is like wrapping a gift for someone and never giving it to them.

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?

Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco.

Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.

I don't have talent, I have tenacity.

Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl, so I never fit in. And so I'd get close, but I never got anywhere, and it was really painful.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

The difference between those who do and those who don't is that those who don't believe it when they are told they can't.

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.