Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

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.

Harper: You, the one part ofthe real world I wasn't allergic to.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

We're working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our attention to terrorism.

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

A forte always makes a foible.

I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.