If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

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.

Nothing is more beautiful than beauty of a kind soul.

The most important thing is for us to use the advantage we have properly and our success will be matchless

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!