If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

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.

The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.

No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better.

In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.