“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.”

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

“All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and when it comes to the Holiday Season, happy families can abruptly become unhappy and unhappy families can, to their great alarm, be happy”

“In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.”

“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”