When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.

I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.

what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.