It's impossible for one person to think of everything.

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.

Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.

It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35 000 a year. Obviously that doesn't include food or lodging.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in there, get your fingers dirty!

Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.