...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one.

First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English.

Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

Today is just the beginning of Kepler. Because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin notebooks, to superphones.

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.

Remember, meditation will bring you more and more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radiant intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and sensitive; your life will become richer

A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.