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

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.

Naysayers have little power over us - unless we give it to them.

Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us, and give us a new power to overcome that sin.

Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world

The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!