The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

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.

It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.

In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.

The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind...about everything that may seem impossible.

I would love to go on MasterChef. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.