Instead of running from the negative, I've started running towards the positive.

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.

My inner waters are healthy, balanced, and full of bliss for all time.

Too many leaders fancy themselves on being philosophers, but not enough pride themselves on decisive action.

When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same amount on his attire, we kneel down and kiss his hand.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

Pity is a corroding thing.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.