Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually

Accountability breeds response-ability.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.