Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I desire knowledge and wisdom.

Once I could imagine my soulI could imagine my death.When I imagined my deathmy soul died. ThisI remember clearly.My body persisted.Not thrived, but persisted.Why I do not know.

A wise man lays up treasures in the Kingdom of our Father, so as to live a happy eternal life

There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

The point, do whatever it take to approach the Word with a fresh perspective.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.