The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

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.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

There's that issue of if you attack someone you don't know where the votes are going to go.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

I’m never without a bandage.

Although we are aware that North Korea is attaching importance to the liquidation of the past, that is difficult unless there is progress over the abduction issue.

All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.