Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

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.

You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don't decide, others will decide for you.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

These so called Popcorn movies, or family movies, actually provide something quite beautiful and something quite necessary, which is a family bonding experience.

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.