The drugs are just growing all around the country, and so, it all feeds into problems that are not just urban, but are just spread throughout the country.

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.

If you think like others, how can you be sure you're thinking at all?

Sometimes I wonder if we're all a little like Harold (a rooster). Real life carries on around us while we strut around in our own yards, thinking we're the ones in charge of things.

I realize that it's not that difficult to remember what people like, especially when you care about them.

It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring."

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.

Once you're in the game, you forget about everything.

The great thing about living today is that there is this thing called the Interweb, and you can just look up anything.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.