Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media.

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.

Focusing on solutions fuels progress.

Content is not king – relevant, timely and authentic content is king

No one can take the power within you.

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot.

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

Pretty please. With sugar.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.