If you want a particular behavior from someone else, try spotlighting those times when he or she is already doing it.

People are pulled towards the best in themselves, and spotlighting the right is a much stronger approach than nagging.

I think there is little harm in venting here and there about things, as we are all human, and it is good to express emotions.

People will often say "You can't change other people." My research shows this societal belief is not only dis-empowering, it is scientifically false.

Too quickly, venting can turn into dumping garbage on the people around us.

We are all constantly transmitting information to the people around us, and the messages we choose to communicate either create success or hold us all hold back.

There is no greater prediction in the research of our levels of happiness than the breadth and depth of our relationships.

We change people, but oftentimes we get so focused on the negative people and their influence on us, we forget how powerful we are as positive people to influence others.

Change your story, change your power.

Being in touch with the problems in the world or our lives is important, but even more important is to focus the brain on what we can do about them.

Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media.

One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

Beauty, the smile of God, Music, His voice.

When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished. We're finished. All of us.