I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

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.

Nothing can cure the mind but the love, nothing can possess the love but the mind.

Wisdom is not to be at the top of a giant pyramid and hence see everywhere clearly, but wisdom is to be at the top, at the bottom, to be inside the pyramid, it is to be everywhere!

A challenge to your bad luck is your confidence. Your confidence, you and your patience is your good luck.

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Remember the law of the home: Junk expands to fill the space available, plus one room.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.