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

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.

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.

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

We are not less because we have less

No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

I don't eat celery. I eat raw milk, cheeses.

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero!

Follow your dreams, transform your life.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.