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.

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

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

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.

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.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world

Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear.

Who loves me will love my dog also.

I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.

All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

I'm always looking for good music.

Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.