Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

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.

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.

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

Maybe that’s why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse.

Dreams do not bear fruits unless the weather conditions are favourable. Your positive mentality makes your dreams germinate

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds.

You'd be amazed at what I can do. Did you know I can swim?

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.