You brain does its best when it is doing a task it can do well. That's basic brain science.

In order to do what really matters to you, you have to, first of all, know what really matters to you.

Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which one to be on determines success or failure, joy or despair.

Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

All connections matter, but the people you depend upon matter most.

It is the greatest feeling in the world. When we shine, we defy death for the moment. We enter into a state of immersion in the craft we ply, a state in which we become one with what we do.

No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.

I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.

Why just celebrate birthdays? Why not celebrate every day? In reality, we are born anew everyday. Everyday is a Birthday!

Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.

Hug the shore

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

The calendar? A mere convention.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.

I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible.

[Hillary Clinton] really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.