While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.

Life is choices...and sometimes other people's choices even more than your own.

The life I live is my art work.

I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to get knocked out. I'm scared of not going for it.

I want to date someone who likes who I am as a person and not what I do for a living.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

The American Dream is ownership … a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.