Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.

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.

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

People sometimes say to me: "Craig, get out of my garden."

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken