The happiest people are the most giving people

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.

The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.

In those days food was never just sustenance

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.

The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.