Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

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'm not out to make everybody happy. I'm out to make the right people happy.

The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.

Producing is just a big learning experience.

There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.

There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

Things come apart much easier than they go together.