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No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting up another person.

The world needs your energy, your passion — it doesn't need your indifference.

The way to be happy is to like yourself, and the way to like yourself is to do only things that make you proud.

The measure of success is what you think about what you've done. Not the doing well, nor the failure — but what you think about it.

There will be times when knowing things won't matter as much as how scary the situation is. When that happens, you'll have to decide whether or not to get into the wheelbarrow.

Do one thing at a time. Give each experience all your attention. Try to resist being distracted by other sights and sounds, other thoughts and tasks, and when it is, guide your mind back to what you're doing.

To generalize is to be an Idiot. To particularize is alone Distinction of Merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

Keep a journal. Knowing you're going to write something every day sharpens your attention to everything that happens. For the longest time, I didn't keep a journal, and as a result much of my pretty long and interesting life is lost to me.

Right after graduation today, make a list of the people who don't believe in you. And you call them tonight, and tell them to go to hell!

The important thing in life is to follow your passion — no matter what it is — for whatever mysterious reasons.

Your job is to witness. To witness, to understand, to comprehend, and to celebrate. To celebrate with your lives.

Love what you do, or don't do it. Don't make a choice of any kind, whether in career or in life, just because it pleases others or because it ranks high on someone else's scale of achievement.