The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job

Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your (body), no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.

When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.

A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction.

Adventures are important things in our life, to forget about our aging.

The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.

I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.