Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike them first.

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.

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

Seek Truth, for it is your destiny!

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

Writer's a lovers quarrel - encounters breathe the quill...

At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her "castle," I thought I should know.

Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.