All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.

I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right?

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result.

Well, you can’t have just some of me, Jai,” I told her. “You appreciate the part of me that didn’t get angry because two ‘things’ we own got hurt. But the flip side of that is my belief that you don’t repair things if they still do what they’re supposed to do. The cars still work. Let’s just drive ’em.