Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.

A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing...

Oh no, Nick" Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, "how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

There is no right answer except to play and experiment.

We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago [Israel] and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them.

I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.

We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.