Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

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.

The memory of how he felt when he cared about her was going to be the most painful thing after he began to hate her.

When you feel lost turn towards love. Become a seeker of beauty in all things.

There is no hope but in prayer.

It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.

I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.