We are attracted to people who have traits we want in ourselves, and usually we are unattracted to people with traits that we share.

From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

Although we think of them as extraordinary, miracles also streak across our consciousness every day. We can choose to notice or ignore them, unaware that our destinies may hang in the balance. Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine. Ignore it, and an opportunity is gone forever.

The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings.