I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator.

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.

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.

There are no happy endings.

Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.

Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.

Everywhere my sons and I go, we're telling people the good news about Jesus, blowing duck calls, and making people, happy, happy- then down the road we go.

the kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.