It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."