Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.

You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy happier.