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When a grown man says he wants a cookie, he wants a cookie. The art of doctoring is negotiating with hope.

Hold your children up high as your greatest inventions because they are. I invented something many of you use every day and it doesn't compare to any day with a happy, healthy child.

Don't step on anyone's neck to advance your cause. Never sue anyone, and try not to get sued. You will sleep better at night.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.

I was not someone who should have the life I have now, and yet I do. I was sitting in the chair you are literally sitting in right now and I just whispered, 'Why not me?' And I kept whispering it for seventeen years.

Don't be scared if you don't do things in the right order, or if you don't do some things at all. If you have a checklist, good for you. Structured ambition can sometimes be motivating. But also, feel free to let it go.

You have to have insane confidence in yourself, even if it's not real. You need to be your own cheerleader now, because there isn't a room full of people waiting with pom-poms to tell you you did it.

Failure is not something to be ashamed of, it's something to be powered by. Failure is the highest octane fuel your life can run on. You gotta learn to make failure your fuel.

You will not always be the goal scorer. And when you are not, you better be rushing toward her.

If I could go back and tell my younger self one thing it would be this: Abby, you were never Little Red Riding Hood. You were always the wolf.

Real success requires step after step after step after step. It requires choice after choice.

Take a step that will lead you toward the realization of your dream, and then take another, and another, and another.