Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.

People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

Is it wrong to protect your heart?”- Marc (Marked Book #1) page 130

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.