Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.

I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.

The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.

My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.

I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.

People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.

I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

Instead of plastic surgery, I'd rather have a height enhancement surgery.

A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.