The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

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.

Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

The craven's fear is but selfishness like his merriment.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

Football is part of I, When I play the world wakes up around me

Death is the last limit of all things.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

We're going take a common-sense, step-by-step approach that puts in place the kind of policies that will make our- our health insurance system more what I call patient-centered and lower cost.

With the infinite patience of one who has learned to live broken, he awaited her return.

Make up your mind to be happy.