Arianna Huffington

“Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.”

“If you want to have the clarity and steadiness to deal with that '3:00 A.M. phone call,' you should better have made sure that you're not running on empty when that phone rings.”

“The goal of any true resistance is to affect outcomes, not just to vent. And the only way to affect outcomes and thrive in our lives is to find the eye in the hurricane and act from that place of inner strength.”

“We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.”

“There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.”

“I've always been fascinated by dreams - mine are so vivid. I went through a period in my 20s when I wrote down my dreams every morning. Then life intervened, and I stopped doing it.”

“I see some people stay in one place because it's convenient or it's comfortable. But they're missing out on their passion.”

“We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.”

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

“I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.”

“Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.”

“Women process stress differently. If we can change the workplace culture to make it more welcoming for women, we're also going to improve behavior, and we're going to improve outcomes.”

“I can tell you with authority that when I'm exhausted, when I'm running on empty, I'm the worst version of myself.”

“The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.”

“And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.”

“The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.”

“I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!”

“Trump's executive order on refugees, his endless petty feuds - with allies, with judges, with Arnold Schwarzenegger - his constant stream of up-is-down and down-is-up fabrications is outrageous.”

“The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.”

“America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.”