Wisdom

The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It's to lose yourself.

Happiness is love. Full stop. The surest way to measure whether a person is happy, healthy and well is to ask: How deeply is that person enmeshed in deep passionate commitments?

Life is too short to let the world we experience be restricted by our own limited vision.

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

Fight them back with facts. Because facts matter. There are standards of truth, and we should demand nothing less.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do, but without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.

We should define the world by its opportunities rather than by its dangers.

Life is harsh and sometimes even ruthless. Only the tough survive. That is one strand of thinking. The other says: humankind is a species of designers, problem solvers, and seekers. We don't have to accept our follies and our missteps.

The answers are not that hard. They just sometimes appear like a stick when they are actually a snake, or appear like a snake when they're actually a stick.

Ask for guidance before you commit the crime. Trust me, it is much less embarrassing to ask for help privately than to beg for forgiveness at graduation.

When given the choice between fame and glory, take glory. Glory has a way of sneaking up on fame and stealing its lunch money later anyway.