We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear of authority.

Entrepreneurship may be the most under-taught subject.

What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.

It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

If we always livein constant fearthen we might missthe beauty of the momentright now, right here.

Many without punishment none without sin.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.

Unhealthy diets and junk foods accumulate and eventually you'll die.

I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.