We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

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.

Like I said, hearts can be tricky things. Sometimes gender doesn't matter when two souls connect.

I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things

Up rose the ghosts of parties, of themselves when they were younger, too dumb to understand they were ecstatic.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

Now all of us can talk to the NSA -- just by dialing any number.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.

Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as we do in our sneakers.

The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.