...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.

Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.

Part of the problem with positive thinking, and many related approaches to happiness, is exactly this desire to reduce big questions to one-size-fits-all self-help tricks or ten point plans.

...no matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of failure. Your bodily organs will fail, and you'll die.

I came to understand that happiness and vulnerability are often the same thing.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.

There are some hot girls in Vancouver.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

We can never give up the belief that the good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us

As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the straight-up peak of hip-hop. Straight-up one of the most powerful records ever made, period, in music.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

A tree fell on Greg Abbott - he sued and got millions.