It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

We're exposed and carry in our bodies multiple chemicals, and we have to understand how they interact. Both how they individually interact and the thousands of effects they can produce when they interact with the receptors that run our bodies.

When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.

As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory.