Mindfulness - moment to moment non-judgemental attention and awareness.

Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.

We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.

Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.