Ask yourself what you could do to make situations less difficult. Do it, even if you think you shouldn't have to.

Don't blame others when something goes wrong. Don't blame yourself endlessly, either. Just find ways to do it differently next time.

Work out problems in person, not on e-mail.

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well I'm nor ready for an instirurion for rhe blind just yet.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.