• “Our relationships mold not just our experience, but our biology. Whenever we connect face to face, (or voice to voice, or skin to skin) with someone else, our social brains interlock.”
   Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence
• “The brain can change as a result of the thoughts we think. Something as seemingly insubstantial as a thought can affect the very stuff of the brain in a way that can lead to a greater capacity for empathy and compassion.”
   Time Magazine, January 2007