Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear of authority.

Entrepreneurship may be the most under-taught subject.

What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds.

Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

I didn’t realize that pretending to be this ‘Hills Heidi,’ this spoiled rich girl who I wasn’t, would almost destroy me.

My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it

Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.

Property in everyday life, is the right of control.