It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.

It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.

Find a happy person, and you will find a project.

Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.

We are a nation of shop keepers.

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

I'm gonna love you like I've never been broken I'm gonna say it like it's never been spoken

People would be so much more interesting if they'd behave like who they are, and not like what they think others expect them to be.

I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.