We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.

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.

Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.

Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

If your war is for your existence, fight it right to the end!

I think good teachers are underpaid.

I think Jews are the smartest people in the world