My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.

I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.

The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.

Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.

Whatever you entertain becomes educational.

I have itwhen I do not want, it.Petra Hermans

I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for it, and I still am nauseous from it.

Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

We don't need secrecy.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.