If you have an ability, you want to exercise it, not anesthetize it.

I'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that you're not getting six to eight hours of sleep.

Some people who are recovering from depression want to use the lessons they're learned in coping with depression and their empathy for people with depression. Others want their career to have nothing to do with depression.

Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential.

Few people make a living as a public speaker but many people build it into their career. A career is like a suit of clothes: to look its best, it must be tailored and accessorized. So whatever career you choose, let's say it's social work - you can, for example, ask your boss - if you can give talks at housing project community centers about the social services available.

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.