I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldn’t even bother doing it. You should just figure out the way you feel today and if it happens to comply with what you thought before, fine. If it contradicts it, whatever. Life goes on.