We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

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.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them

If God and Christ were equal then Christ should be called God’s brother, not God’s Son.

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

If all the actors are in the recording session at the same time, you can record all voices for one episode in an hour. Of course, the animation takes longer but the voice acting is done very quickly.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.

TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.