I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true.

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.

Not every man has the courage & strength to handle a deep women.

Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever

I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

The fight against drug trafficking by the Colombian government has been present, and the Americans themselves are the first to recognize that.

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.

Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs.