The best leaders don’t know just one style of leadership—they’re skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.

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.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.

The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.

We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

When you love yourself, you'll feel sorry for those that hate you instead of hating them back.