Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

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.

You look beautiful even when you cry. I mean, not that you don’t look beautiful when you’re happy. Of course, you’re beautiful all the time. But out there in the snow, you were stunning.

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.

The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.

Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place.

I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.