We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.

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.

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

Talents used are talents multiplied.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to drive my business. Now, everything comes from the numbers.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

If you know the wavefunction of the universe, why aren't you rich?

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.