If you make a mistake, celebrate.

Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

This is the moment — this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That’s what our job is. It’s not about impressing people. It’s not about getting the next job. It’s about contributing something.

I have a definition of success.

Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.