It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

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.

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

I'd hate to list our specialties. Wreck cars, eat doughnuts, create mayhem.

Apart from the fact that I can move the bike fast, I am basically Joe Average.

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.

Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.

When I was fifteen or eighteen, I never even imagined I would be in a band, let alone being able to travel to places like Australia and New Zealand.

Do not pay too much attention to the advice or suggestions of those around you.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.