Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

Act the way you WANT to feel.

I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging."

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.

As long as she wants me, I’m here.

You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And straight is cold again.