It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear of authority.

Entrepreneurship may be the most under-taught subject.

What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

The fool will pay anything to live a few more years on earth, but the fool rejects the free gift of everlasting life. Salvation is a wise choice.

Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

I got into the acting business very young.

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.