In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

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.

Release Lady Mirabelle and the kitten or I’ll run you through, skewering your belly, pinching out your life.

The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And Putin will finance his next invasion on Kickstarter.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.

It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody.

As night falls, every joy glows brighter.

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.