The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.

When you live for the purpose of making a difference for the people, for society, for the things that are beyond you, then significance will not be able to elude you.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

El error más grande al caer es quedarnos en el piso.

Your people sell the weapons. My people use them.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing.

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

It's weird to have to look at another co-worker and have a silent discussion - any discussion - about how you are going to touch their genitals or allow them to touch your genitals.