I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

Saying ‘I love you’ every day’ to your loved ones is not required, but if you say it, what will you lose?

A divine power delivers us from every danger.

At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.

So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it!