Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

I’m avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can’t justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can’t do it!

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life–that’s just one way you’re pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn’t match your life, you have pain.

If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.

Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I’m avoiding the issue of bias.

I love running. I’m not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate.

Avoid the penalties of the blame game. You were born to be boss player, not a blame giver. Stop the blame!

Isn’t it amazing that we’ll cause ourselves more pain by thinking about, and avoiding something we’re afraid of, or something we know we must deal with, but don’t want to face? The best thing you...

Doing mistakes is as much a part of life as avoiding them. You may not get a second chance to do the same mistake, so, go on, give it a shot.