There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.

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.

If you let your man-made actions to be more frequent than your man-said words you will travail with praise in man-win visions. Do more, say less, win big.

Money can't buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.

I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.

Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it.

If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography.

LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.