I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

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.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.

What a blessing it is for parents to believe in their children.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.