Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

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.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

In Christ Jesus, we are bound to be free.

We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.

I want us to save the creation-not just care about it, but to save it.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.

When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.