When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

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.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromising who God wanted you to be.

Before you can tame your genius spirit, you have to find her.

I just feel really grateful that I can pursue my dreams and also reach people in ways that I never expected.

I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight' - songs that go straight to the point.

Ideally, I would like to be in a position where I represent 100 guys in the NFL, to be in a position where I could control whether some teams win or lose.

You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed

Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!