Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

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.

FAITH, is all i have, and all i need,

I don't really trust a sane person.

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking

I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.

When you are falling --- Dive!

One more point I'll just make about [Michael] Flynn is that we're already seeing, and we've seen Democrats come forward and start to express their opposition.

When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

State problems should involve state solutions.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.