The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

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.

They didn't get the friendships that formed, the community of people who shared in your same joy.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you're never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don't think we can assure that.

I'm not in the gossips that much, but something I read recently was that me and Emma Watson are having a feud. And I've never even met her.

Istanbul these days has as much dynamism as New York.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset.

I just happen to think people are better off doing something they actually like.

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.