You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don't decide, others will decide for you.

luck is distributed at six in the morning

Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

Sometimes when you cannot decide what to do, you pretend to be a character in a book, because it is easier to decide what they would do"-Cassandra Clare

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

Mitt Romney is predicting that as president, he will create 12 million jobs in his first term. Well, President Obama says a Romney presidency would result in lost jobs. Yeah, his and Biden's.

I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.

If you learn to condition yourself you can change anything you want in your life.