Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

The Board of Trade Make Do and Mend campaign is intended to help you get the last ounce of wear out of all your clothes

I have a very small team by choice, because I don't believe in teams of 55,000 people.

Every five years, I decide to learn something new.

I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach

No matter the situation, I stay focused and motivated on my goals because that's the way I was raised.

Whatever mind can concieved and believe can be achieves