Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

Writing makes me happy.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging."

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.