Forbearance is a form of generosity.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

Do good, feel good; feel good, do good.

Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.

A book is a better way to develop a complicated idea, or to tell a big story and to show how ideas weave in and out of each other, which is something that comes up a lot in happiness because all these ideas are interconnected.