If we are going to stop wars on this earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number one priority.

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.

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

Stuff is not enough.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.

No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.