If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday.

Ive heard of nothing coming from nothing, but Ive never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.