If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

I have high respect for the Chief Justice and the institution he represents. But, I equally demand respect to the institution I represent.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

I don't think any of us thought Donald Trump could get this far.