Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

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.

I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength.

There's a reason my only friends are written words

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?

These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.

God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.

These Americans believe that everything is possible.

A good headline can make an advertisement good even if the picture is poor.

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

Lovely place, shame about the people!