Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

Everyone in your life is in your life for a reason, it's finding those reasons that make life beautiful.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.

There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.