We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

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.

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.

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

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

The worst choice you can make, is no choice at all

The Mind may relish the companionship of bloated self-pride - but the Soul, will not.

Godliness is the foundation of blessing.

Don’t wait to think out of the box – create your own box.

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

Nearly two and a half million people die every year that are on the voter rolls. So it takes time to get dead people off the voter rolls.

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.