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.

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.

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

Only your life's work, driven by passion, will last forever.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

I will never fit in because I was not meant to

I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica's character pop, I say I just play a white girl in that movie.

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.

If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.