Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.

If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can't, then you've got to think like they think.

If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.

And you can save more money for retirement. It’s not just about marshmallows.

I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.

James Watson summarizes the conclusion: “A predisposition does not a predetermination make.

Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth, then I do balancing exercises.

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

I don't like going on stage. Stages mean "nervous" for me.

There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.

Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.

It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.