Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

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.

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

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.

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.

May every day of the New Year be filled with glorious wonders.

The gospel of the kingdom talks about principles of the kingdom.

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because they'll give me a bit of energy to keep going.

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you.

I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep.

My son asked for very little - a kickstand, with a motorcycle attached.

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.