The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

I believe that living out loud and not letting fear hold you back is the key to the fullest, most rewarding life possible

Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.

The U.K. should begin with an FAnd have a C after the U, And it should end in E DNow that we’ve left the E.U.

Oh! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head

I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?

Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

God made the country, and man made the town.