Purpose

No just cause is futile, even if it's lost. What matters is to keep going, no matter what. Keep going.

Trust that inner voice. Because more than ever we need people to be guided by their own senses of principle — and not the whims of a culture that prizes ambition, and sensationalism, and celebrity, and vulgarity, and doing whatever it takes to win.

Take a step that will lead you toward the realization of your dream, and then take another, and another, and another.

There is no humanity without education. There is no education without demand.

When I was five or six years old, I remember watching TV and I would see these commercials... 'you can give 25 cents, save a child's life.' And I would think to myself, I wonder how many 25 cents I could save up to save all the kids in Africa. And I would say to myself, 'when I grow up, when I can get rich, I'mma save kids all over the world.'

You don't have to be rich to be a humanitarian. You don't have to be rich to help somebody. You don't gotta be famous. You don't even have to be college-educated.

Tear down this mirror that makes you always look at yourself and you will be able to look beyond this mirror and see the millions of people that need your help.

In the end, we are not going to be remembered for how much we made but for how much we have given. Make sure that it is not about 'me.' That it is about 'we.' Turn the 'me' into 'we,' and I guarantee you that you can change the world.

You're nothing if you're not the truth. I've made a living, I've made a life, I've made a fortune — all from being true to myself.

Having a closet full of shoes doesn't fill up your life. Living a life of substance can — substance through your service.

To have the opportunity to live a creative life, to have even the possibility of the opportunity to live a creative life, is a gift.

Act III is everything. No matter the strength of the foundation, the assorted catastrophes of the Second Act, if we don't have Act III, we're really in trouble. Will the heroine pull it out in the end, or does she falter?