It's hard for parents just to measure schools.

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.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

Gather all your effort to achieve a single goal and you will be bound to succeed

When an Angel whispers in your ear, it is your heart that hears thy message.

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.

Here's the way I look at it. President Bush has uranium-tipped bunker busters and I have puns. I think he'll be OK.

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so Im able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

You can't eat a winner's plaque.

Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.