Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

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.

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.

Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I think timelessness is a very important factor in whatever I do. That's what makes a classic.

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

so i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while.