Happy, calm children learn best

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.

LOVE is a friendship set to music

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

That's why I'm a success, it's because I don't middle in other people's lives.

You can't ground us. We're homeless," Daphne said.

Chess isn't football or hockey.

I forgot how it feel like to have the top of my foot hurt so bad from kicking people on the face.

I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving.

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.