The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them.

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.

Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country.

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.