You can practice for 30 years and still not be a Mozart. The most lethal combination would be a Mozart who practiced for thousands of hours.

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.

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

With a mighty mind, you can conquer every mountain.

Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.

Would do well to slow down a little... focus on the significant... and truly see the things that matter most.

The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.

Superior strength is a sword that manifests one's will.

A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.

Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.