People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go for the 70 decibels, they go for the Starbucks effect.

what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

Be strong in spirit, you can conquer every circumstance.

There will always remain more ashes than remorse.

The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

They say a good man is worth fighting for. But a man who's good for YOU shouldn't make you fight just for the right to be in his life.

When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.