Spending on oneself does not boost wellbeing. However, spending money on others does -- and it appears to be as important to people's happiness as the total amount of money they make.

If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual.

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person.

You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.

Make work a purpose, not just a place.

When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more.

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.

If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat

He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.

If you think your scars bother me, you're wrong. In my eyes, you're a hero. Your scars are just proof of that.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?

I love the traveling, of course. Not the flying, but the actual traveling.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

If I'm singing, I'm happy - that's what I've learned about myself.