Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.

Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.

A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.

Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts.

Never take "NO" for an answer.

For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

I don't believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don't believe in Big Foot.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

By life's very nature we are compelled to find and maintain balance, or be subject to the symptoms of the lack thereof.