Since fear is such a primal reaction, making the choice to move forward despite fear is an evolved decision that transcends our animal nature.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

It takes a strong individual to live passionately, and with having quality in their conviction, that sets the results one achieves.

Italians make you laugh and break your heart.

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

There's no shame in being crazy.

The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.