Reaching beyond where you are is really important.

Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.