I think globalization has been really good for America.

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.

You tend to become that, what you want most. Expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen.

There are two key areas that boil down life. Our relationships with people and the relationships with ourselves.

One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.

I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.

The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

You have to sometimes shoot from the second row, that's all football. So you have to be a bit more flexible.

It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well.

I do think that we are an overmedicated society.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.