Starting our day off with a dose of negativity can have lasting effects.

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.

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

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn’t true.

The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.