It's time to sleep your way to the top.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

I'm passionate. I find if I really believe something, I want to put my entire being behind it.

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

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.

There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.