We're no longer living in Tammany Hall America.

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.

Profits don't always prove that you're doing it, passion does.

I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.

Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

There is no business to be done on a dead planet.

I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

Hookers have to deliver on their promise... unlike politicians.

How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.