We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.

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.

Thus, though we cannot make our sunStand still, yet we will make him run.

Appreciate others so that you can be appreciated

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.