You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)

A friend is a bird who can understand you and sing along with you even when you lose your voice.

You need editors, not brand managers, who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.