One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

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.

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.

When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.

The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

If somebody says, "You like putting out fires," and I say, "It's not a case of liking it, but I do put them out, and if there aren't fires left I make them, so I can put them out." It's what we do.

Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

The evil always comes from details.

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

I guess getting down on your knees runs in the family