So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it.

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.