The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

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.

I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.

If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.

The love of God is not conditional, it does not depend on anything and it never ends.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

My belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the testimony I have of the Savior and His atonement [is my personal shelter].

I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.