When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

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

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.

Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

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

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.