"There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums."

"I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility."

"When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch."

"But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 43 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 31."

"Wisdom principle 36 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 47."

"Wisdom principle 34 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 71."