I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be the dominant player .

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 room without books is like a body without a soul.

You lift your head, you’re on your way, but really just to be walking, to be out of doors. That’s it, that’s all, and you’re there. Outdoors is our element: the exact sensation of living there.

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

I’m thinking of the protector who wants to be protected and a fighter who loves the right battle but will lay down her arms to go on a quest.

God made thee good as thou art beautiful.

I give God all the glory. And try to move on. Come home and hug my wife and my children. And thank God for every day that I have with my family.

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.