As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

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.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

In life, you don't get what you deserve; you get what you believe, plan, and expect.

I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.