There is a virtue in shamelessness.

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.

When you help someone to become a success, you unknowingly become a success.

Life is a window of opportunity to love and enjoy.

I don't know who made the laws

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

When one really loves, one can never be hurt.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

People come up with stupid ideas all the time. That's why your detergent tells you not to eat it.

If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.