Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.

Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.

We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.

We can change the brain by changing the mind.

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.

I've got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday.

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

The biggest terrorist is Obama.

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing

Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.