Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.

Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.

The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.

The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.

The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.

People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.