Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

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.

When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all.

I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games.

I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.

Those moments in your life when you feel absolute exhilaration are moments of complete alignment with the Source within you.

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

Words divorced from action supporting them are meaningless and hypocritical.

That's what we Americans do when we find a place that's really special. We go there and act exactly like ourselves. And we are a bunch of fun-loving dopes.

When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness