A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.

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.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

There is a better future, with a greater purpose. We can find it, only when we search for it.

In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

A small businesses ability to gain an edge for a profitable niche is not by just focusing on the dynamic market gap, but by identifying a market within the gap.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures.

How can I protect something so perfect without evil.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.