I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.

Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.

A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

I am not mean I am just sarcastically humorous

Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either.

On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.

I have no regrets. I believe in God, who controls every sacred-event.

Its only called PTDS if you stop fighting.

Act with though awareness and love in the present moment then you will never need to worry about the thought of regret.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.