Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

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.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations.

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing.

Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous.