Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.

According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.