Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

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

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.