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

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.

Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.