He has this ability to connect with you, to create rapport with people, ... He's very warm and very friendly he has a good sense of humor, laughs very easily. Obviously, when you see somebody like that you can feel this happiness, and you want some of it yourself.

Thirty percent of people rate themselves very happy, about 10 percent of people rate themselves as pretty miserable, and then most of us fall in the range somewhere between those points,

The purpose of the book isn't necessarily, 'We're all miserable and here's how to be happier,' ... There are many people who are feeling very happy. But it's addressed to people from the standpoint of whatever level of life satisfaction and contentment you're experiencing, it's always possible through your own efforts to increase that level and improve upon it.

Let's face it, a lot of rich people in China aren't there because of ability. They got there because of connections. For instance, in real estate, many people got rich because they knew someone in the land bureau and got land cheap.

That's the biggest difference. The ability to fire people and hire your people to take their place.

The type of Buddhist practices that I talk about in 'The Art of Happiness' have to do with reconditioning one's way of thinking and one's outlook, and one's perception and how one relates to people, ... That type of thing, any Westerner can practice at any time.