I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner..

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door..

Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in….

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, econo….

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue..

The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones….

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans yo….

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well..

Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the plac….

a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?.

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing..

So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal ….

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use..

It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything..

As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm of negativity.'..….

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but….

Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person ….

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it..

When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop..

Where we are is vital to who we are..

Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. ….