We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.

Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

The up side of down: why failing well is the key to success.

It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.

Life has no joy in it without accomplishment of purpose

The destination is fulfilling when the path is authentically your own

...one dies of thirst just when the palm tress have appeared on the horizon.

No opposition politician has ever taken responsibility for his or her election failures.

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.

Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay a nickel in some cases in federal income taxes.

What interests me is the way people regard themselves. When we are 15, we all feel as if we are beginning to become somebody else.

He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it.

Donald Trump's living in a different time, a time that is not a match for what Americans now believe about who our leaders should be.