When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.

Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

If I wasn’t winning you wouldn’t care

As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.

Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.