Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day.

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.

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

You're only as happy as your least happy child.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

I may be biased, but I think the cover art is stunning.

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

Life is a journey, not a destination. Happiness is not "there" but here, not "tomorrow" but today.

One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.