You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.