Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.

You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.

Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.

Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.

Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.

The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential

They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!” said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by.

I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

Alas, so all things now do hold their peace: Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing: The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease; The nightes chare the stars about doth bring.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.

That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where.