(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

Once I ran to you, now I run from you.

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.

Funny how certain things stay with you.

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

We live in a world where losing your phone is more dramatic than losing your virginity

You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.

You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, whats the point?