If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.

The smaller the drink the clearer the head.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.

I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.