Failure is a stepping stone to success.

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

Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.

The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.

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

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.