If you have kids at home: The transition from work to home is the dress rehearsal, with walking into the house being showtime. Finish your business work before you get home, even if that means you've got to drive around the neighborhood a few times.

Nine years ago, sitting in a hotel room in Budapest, my girlfriend of just a couple weeks found out she was pregnant. I was twenty-three and had just begun traveling the world. I hardly knew her and she hardly knew me.

“and now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” East of Eden