Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.

The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

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.

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.