If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.

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.

Don’t rebel, but give God the opportunity to change your life and help you over the problems of youth, for they are many.

I always say, 'If it looks good on a T-shirt, it would probably be a pretty cool title or cool song.'

People love nobody as much as they do their hatred.

Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.

The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time

Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.