It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.

we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in their chosen profession, and in their relationships, live longer and in better health, enjoy a better chance of surviving postoperative shock, and are less prone to depression and suicide.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.