Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

Success is simple. Do what's right the right way at the right time.

I don't eat junk food and I don't think junk thoughts.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break.

I am dying of hunger.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.