Wisdom

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty.

Revolutions not in arms but in minds — more powerful and permanent and pervasive.

We human beings are a lot more resilient than we often realize.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

We are not so good. We are humans, and, as such, we are, without our quite knowing it, always living at least partly in the dark.

Stop worrying so much. Stop being scared of the unknown. Anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened, but not what I worried about.

Most adults are pretending. Status, intelligence, beauty, wealth, achievement. The older you get, the more you see people pretending in little ways all the time.

While life is often determined by dumb luck, these are the ways to tilt the odds of dumb luck in your favor.

There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities.

You need a soulmate, not a cellmate.

Anger robs creativity. Never go on stage mad.

These stories we tell about ourselves — they're almost like our infrastructure, like railroads or highways. We can build them almost any way we want to. But once they're in place, this whole inner landscape grows up around them.