The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

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.

In times of trouble, fear not! God will deliver you.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.

I've been a Hillary Clinton supporter for a long time and I know that is not actually a popular position.

...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.

Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.