Wisdom

If you know what you're capable of, if you're always prepared, and you keep things in perspective, then life has a way of turning no into yes.

In its passivity and resignation, cynicism is a hardening, a calcification of the soul. Hope is a stretching of its ligaments, a limber reach for something greater.

Conversations about grass length and the weather are really conversations about how we are going to get through, and how we are going to get through together.

The world is not a meritocracy, but merit still matters. The world isn't fair, but being fair still matters. The world is unkind, but being kind still matters, perhaps more than anything.

Every day, wake up and say to yourself, this little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine.

The way we spend our days is the way we spend our lives.

The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and possibility — all in one.

To be or not to be is not the question. The vital question is how to be and how not to be.

Don't choose anything that will jeopardize your soul. Prioritize who you are, who you want to be, and don't spend time with anything that antagonizes your character. Don't drink the Kool-Aid — it tastes sweet today but it will give you cavities tomorrow.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am.' It's 'I know who I am not.' Process of elimination.