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

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.

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.

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

Suffering is never wasted. Most often those who suffer the most will learn the most.

When you read and understand a poem comprehending its rich and formal meanings then you master chaos a little.

If I asked you, "Do you think you're beautiful?" everyone should say yes.

The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.

I do not like abortions. I will do everything in my power to restrict abortion.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.