If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

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.

Do your thing, without harming anything.

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.

I'm running my mouth a lot and I'm looking for a guy to shut me up. If you don't shut me up, I'm going to keep running my mouth.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ you have everything.