Look for happiness under your own roof.

You really have to begin by figuring out what kind of person you are. The tip is to really take a look at yourself.

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.'

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly