Authenticity

That choice, between the devil and the dream, comes up every day in different little disguises. I'm sure it comes up in every field of endeavor and every life.

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work, and ask the most and best of everybody else too.

This attitude of opposition is not justified as a strategy, as a means to an end, a way of changing the world. It is, rather, the best way of being in the world.

That choice, between the devil and the dream, comes up every day in different little disguises.

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work, and ask the most and best of everybody else too.

Silence is the soul's invisibility. We can, of course, conceal ourselves behind lies and sophistries, but when we speak, we are present, however careful our disguise.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger but it won't taste good.

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and Earth will have to pause and say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well.'

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

You've pleased your teachers and your parents, and now you have to do something harder, which is to please yourself and to do things that you in your heart know to be right and that you're proud of.

The ultimate power you have over us is your ability to tell your story. If you can tell that story truthfully, with humor and with a little forgiveness, then you're on your own.