Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.

If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can't, then you've got to think like they think.

If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.

And you can save more money for retirement. It’s not just about marshmallows.

I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.

James Watson summarizes the conclusion: “A predisposition does not a predetermination make.

I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth, then I do balancing exercises.

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

You don't know it, but I'm a vertical megabrand with cross-media platforms

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.

It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.