In my forties my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility a trait not easily associated with him.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing you'll like yourself you'll have inner peace. And if you have that along with physical health you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy success doesn't mean that you're happy success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good or feel good or are good.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives a need for control is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health and our success that we take control.

So many people equate money and success with happiness especially in the music industry.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

The thing is when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage and because I went on to have a very very unhappy two years I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.