“The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it’s over.”

Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

Great times are great softeners.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.

I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We’ve got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life – that’s persistence.

We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.

What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production

go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

For me, its better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it’s a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She’ll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week’s episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10.