The Republican Party seems unwilling and unable to offer solutions to the crises we are facing, other than pitching the same failed ideas that got us into the mess we are in the first place.

Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.

But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.

One of my big milestones came when I turned forty and promised myself to stop worrying about all the things I thought I might do but never really would. I was very relieved when I realized that you can actually complete a project by dropping it. That's how I "completed" learning to cook and learning German, becoming a good skier, and a list of other things too long to recite!

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.