That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

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.

The majority of boys think the highest form of creativity is weeing a pattern into snow.

No good will remain unrewarded, if not by men, then by God.

Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

Have people that listen to you and that you listen to. Helping other people is an amazing means of getting out of yourself, being available to people who are in pain or need help, being connected.

When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.