Mitt Romney knows a lot. He's a very professional - a consummate professional.

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.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think

Sometimes a simple focused thought can change the whole world.

Tears do not signal your weakness. Tears testify that you are alive.

I reboot [my Windows PC] every night.

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.

Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.

When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.