I think actually in any party it's a sign of general health to have different views, and especially on the subject of trade.

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.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.

Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

As long as you have the memories, you can be with that person forever.

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested.

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.