In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

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.

Until we learn to love everyone in this universe, how can there be peace?

My mom always said, "Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you."

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

O Rakshas, everything is always all right in the end. If it isn't all right, then it isn't the end

Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

Walk through life as a Blessed Person and a Miracle Maker.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.