When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.

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.

All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.

We are all somebody to people, whose lives we do not touch.

The man was more highly strung than Margaret Thatcher on the rag, God rest her.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

I said '17 - right now, this year, "'17 is going to be a disaster." I'm very good at this stuff.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

Become a champion like Stone Cold Steve Austin!

Autism is part of who I am.

Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.