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Bring your own vision to your work and look for ways you can give something to the world. Inspire people. Make a difference.

The essence of leadership, when all is said and done, is the personal assumption of the moral duty to be proactive in building our future.

Opportunity can be manufactured. You can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action, but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own.

There is compound interest in altruism — the earlier you get started helping others, the more impact you will have over time.

You can't do it alone. Be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You get some success. You run into some walls. And it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

Passion is the thing that you find in your life that you can care about, that you can cling to, that you can invest yourself in, heart, body, and soul.

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

It's not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.

Failure is not the opposite of success, it's an integral part of success.

The world you live in has three problems: it is too unstable, it is too unequal, and it is completely unsustainable.

I have always believed that cynicism and pessimism were cop-outs — they're an excuse to take a dive. They're self-fulfilling prophecies.