A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way

I hope that this [hacking] does not continue to be viewed purely through a partisan lens.I think there are Republicans as well as Democrats who are concerned about this.

Often, people who want to make interesting films simply don't have the money to do it.

A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

Anger has been ready to be angry.

Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

It was all about hate. There should be laws. We're there laws? Can you legislate against hatred?

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.