The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

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.

Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellow man and I will tell you how much you have loved them.

It is during the worst times of your life that you will get to see the true colors of the people who say they care for you.

Here we have baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer recognize and protect and comfort each other.

There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

As individuals we are strong. Together, with God, we are unstoppable.

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

But being energetic in my playing is something I've always thought was the right thing to do. Like I'm never forcing it, like "My God, I've gotta play so hard tonight!"

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.