The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.

I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.

Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.