Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

I have a slight oral fixation.

If only St. Valentine was around to see his memory celebrated through the mindless marketing of whipping cream and lingerie.

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it."

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.