Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

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.

Always using the same methods is not God’s way

System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.

Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.

I just tripped over a pair of shoes and almost fell down and broke my neck and no I wasn't wearing them.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

I have very limited craftsmanship. And a lot of the stuff I make plays on that.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.