Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular.

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.

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.

Don't make all of your sadness to be a miserable tragedy, Just forget it with your conscious heart and clear mind.

I don’t want any of the things that I fear to happen, but this I know, if they do, my God will take care of me.

My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

Love and generosity are the simplest forms of peace.

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.

Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and it doesn't seem like they're focusing on albums.