Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race and other social issues, they didn't really mean it.

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.

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” "Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.