Personally, I think Mitt Romney would be a great secretary of state.

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.

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

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.

He's going to bite me!Instantly the last light in the room fades out as if announcing the reign of darkness.

Many talk about flowing against the wind, but its only fools, who goes against the wind. The wise one’s, simply adjust themselves with the flow of the wind.

Don't ruin the moment by saying something stupid. There's elegance in things left unsaid.

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.

You are all angels, you guys know that right?