Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll likely only get to address one.

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.

Honesty has a power that very few people can handle

To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.