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

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.

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

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination.

And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?

The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion.

Everything you need comes to you in perfect time, space and sequence.

There isn’t a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.