If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.

Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.

To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

What’s working, and how can we do more of it?

The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

When you are cursed with a bipolar mind racing thoughts are the ones that you find

Not every day is beautiful. But there is beauty in every day.

An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.

I actually do believe in life after death.

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.