Philosophical

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really there is no normal. There's only change, and resistance to it, and then more change.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they're given after all. Choices can be hard.

A career is not something that you put on like a coat. It is something that grows organically around you, step by step, choice by choice, and experience by experience.

The world you see outside of you is a reflection of what you have inside of you.

Any successful business reflects the combination of ideas joined with an important expression of love through service to other humans.

If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.

If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse.

Imagination is cultivated, above all, by courses in the arts and humanities. It is in some ways the most essential of all, if we are to work toward a world in which we see distant lives as spacious and deep.

The humanities and the arts only do what is much more precious than making money: they make a world that is worth living in.

A new vision of the American dream that says achieving balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

We push ourselves through the week to get to the weekend. We have become 2/7ths people, only really living 2 days out of the 7 in a week. Things can be different. We can become 7/7ths people. And thereby become whole.

Failure will teach you things that you can learn no place else. How else will you know yourself or the strength of your friendships until both have been tested by adversity?