Women’s magazines will often ask me things like, 'All right, I need six five-minute happiness strategies.' And I say, well, there aren’t any five-minute happiness strategies. This is something you have to do kind of every day for the rest of your life. Just like if you want to raise moral children or if you want to advance in your career. It’s a goal you pursue your whole life.

In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.

Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.

Women’s magazines will often ask me things like, 'All right, I need six five-minute happiness strategies.' And I say, well, there aren’t any five-minute happiness strategies. This is something you have to do kind of every day for the rest of your life. Just like if you want to raise moral children or if you want to advance in your career. It’s a goal you pursue your whole life.