To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

I do a lot of stuff with Wounded Warriors and the Armed Forces Foundation; if you want to get these guys to stop talking, start complimenting!

The only place where we're going to be completely relieved of pain is in Heaven.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

He who thinks little errs much.

Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

I've got an L3 bulging disk and degenerating disk. It's bulging in two places. Yeah, it's not good.

You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.