If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.

The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win

Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.