Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss.

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

Women are very good at judging the risk and don't want to waste time with losing. So not that they're not as competitive, and certainly once they're in the race they're every bit as competitive, but they make that choice to compete in a more calculated way sensitive to the odds.

We've all lost something along the way.

Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.

I can push myself and you can push yourself, but competing, we push ourselves a little farther and we bring out our best even if one of us wins and one of us loses. The virtue of competition is that we both get better, not that one does. And that means we have great respect for the opponents, whether we win or whether we lose.