What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

Nothing like having a warrant for your execution to get a girl motivated.

The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.

The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas.

I got into stand up just to do stand up because I love stand up.

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

Giving works best when the Lord's portion is removed first and believers learn to live within the remainder.

No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

Government was instituted by God to bring His laws to people and to carry out His will and purposes.