If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is how people get to the top of Everest.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.

Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.