Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.

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.

Education falls short of divine truth that will empower our spiritual lives

Men still think women will like who they are, not realizing: it's what they can do for a woman that sets the man apart.

Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.

How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking?

Imagine trying to live without air.Now imagine something worse.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered.

I'm like a chameleon. I adapt to my situation. It's very slowed down here. I like it that way. I'm a guy that's very reserved, quiet and shy myself.

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.