When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

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.

Because that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where it might eventually be displayed. It’s a page.

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

As a mom, I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.